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.

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Author / Creator: Smith, Kathleen E.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Imprint: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2002.
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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.