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Bringing Stalin Back In - Memory Politics and the Creation of a Useable Past in Putin’s Russia (Hardcover)
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Bringing Stalin Back In - Memory Politics and the Creation of a Useable Past in Putin’s Russia (Hardcover)
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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 favorably 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.
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