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The Red Mirror - Putin's Leadership and Russia's Insecure Identity (Paperback)
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The Red Mirror - Putin's Leadership and Russia's Insecure Identity (Paperback)
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What explains Putin's enduring popularity in Russia? In The Red
Mirror, Gulnaz Sharafutdinova uses social identity theory to
explain Putin's leadership. The main source of Putin's political
influence, she finds, lies in how he articulates the shared
collective perspective that unites many Russian citizens. Under his
tenure, the Kremlin's media machine has tapped into powerful group
emotions of shame and humiliation-derived from the Soviet
transition in the 1990s-and has politicized national identity to
transform these emotions into pride and patriotism. Culminating
with the annexation of Crimea in 2014, this strategy of national
identity politics is still the essence of Putin's leadership in
Russia. But victimhood-based consolidation is also leading the
country down the path of political confrontation and economic
stagnation. To enable a cultural, social, and political revival in
Russia, Sharafutdinova argues, political elites must instead focus
on more constructively conceived ideas about the country's future.
Integrating methods from history, political science, and social
psychology, The Red Mirror offers the clearest picture yet of how
the nation's majoritarian identity politics are playing out.
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