Bringing Stalin back in : memory politics and the creation of a useable past in Putin's Russia /

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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Main Author: Nelson, Todd H. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2019]
Subjects:
Stalin, Joseph, > 1878-1953 > Public opinion.
Stalin, Joseph, > 1878-1953.
Public opinion > Russia (Federation)
Public opinion.
Soviet Union > History > 1925-1953 > Public opinion.
Russia (Federation)
Soviet Union.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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