Bringing Stalin back in : memory politics and the creation of a useable past in Putin's Russia / Todd H. Nelson.
"While Joseph Stalin is commonly reviled in the West as a murderous tyrant who committed egregious human rights abuses against his own people, in Russia he is often positively viewed as the symbol of Soviet-era stability and state power. How can there be such a disparity in perspectives? Utiliz...
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| 505 | 0 | |a Introduction: The long shadow of Stalin -- Russian "soft memory" Part 1: Crafting the Stalinistt narrative in Russian society-at-large -- Russian "soft memory" Part 2: the education sphere and the presentation of Stalinism -- "Hard" memory" comparing memorialization of the Great Patriotic War and the Stalinist repressions -- Bringing it all together: complex co-optation, civil society, and access to discourse on the Soviet period -- Conclusion: ghosts of the past in the Russian present. | |
| 520 | |a "While Joseph Stalin is commonly reviled in the West as a murderous tyrant who committed egregious human rights abuses against his own people, in Russia he is often positively viewed as the symbol of Soviet-era stability and state power. How can there be such a disparity in perspectives? Utilizing an ethnographic approach, extensive interview data, and critical discourse analysis, this book examines the ways that the political elite in Russia are able to control and manipulate historical discourse about the Stalin period in order to advance their own political objectives. Appropriating the Stalinist discourse, they minimize or ignore outright crimes of the Soviet period, and instead focus on positive aspects of Stalin's rule, especially his role in leading the Soviet Union to victory in the Second World War. Advancing the concepts of "preventive" and "complex" co-optation, this book analyzes how elites in Russia inhibit the emergence of groups that espouse alternative narratives, while promoting message-friendly groups that are in line with the Kremlin's agenda. Bringing the resources of the state to bear, the Russian elite are able to co-opt multiple avenues of discourse formulation and dissemination. Elite-sponsored discourse positions Stalin as the symbol of a strong, centralized state that was capable of great achievements, despite great cost, enabling favorable portrayals of Stalin as part of a tradition of harsh but effective rulers in Russian history, such as Peter the Great. This strong state discourse is used to legitimize the return of authoritarianism in Russia today."-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
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