Mythmaking in the new Russia : politics and memory during the Yeltsin era /

Kathleen E. Smith examines the use of collective memories in Russian politics during the Yeltsin years, surveying the various issues that became battlegrounds for contending notions of what it means to be Russian.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Smith, Kathleen E.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2002.
Subjects:
Since 1991
Political culture > Russia (Federation)
Post-communism > Russia (Federation)
Culture politique > Russie.
Postcommunisme > Russie.
HISTORY > Europe > Eastern.
HISTORY > Europe > Former Soviet Republics.
HISTORY > Europe > Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Ideologies > Nationalism & Patriotism.
Political culture
Politics and government
Post-communism
Politische Kultur
Collectief geheugen.
Symbolen.
Nationale identiteit.
Russia (Federation) > Politics and government > 1991-
Russie > Politique et gouvernement > 1991-2000.
Russia (Federation)
Russland
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Table of Contents:
  • Memory and postcommunist politics
  • Rewriting Communist Party history in the constitutional court
  • Remembering August 1991 : founding moment or farce?
  • Disposing of the spoils of World War II
  • Recasting the commemorative calendar
  • Remaking the capital's landscape
  • Campaigning on the past in the 1996 presidential race
  • Searching for a new Russian idea
  • Patriotic divisions.

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