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Post-Soviet Russia in the 1990s saw a surge in civic participation.
The traditional power structure officially relinquished control of
political rhetoric and a nascent civil society had begun to emerge.
Free elections and political partisanship between reformist and
conservative elements of Russian society, spurred on by Russia's
economic troubles, gave a "Wild West" tenor to public rhetoric that
was reflected in the election campaigns of 1993, 1995, and 1996. In
this volume, the authors examine, through a series of
contemporaneously written essays, the arc of government rhetoric
during the height of media freedom, the quest for a new national
identity, and the struggle for self-government.
The essays in this book examine the arguments and rhetoric used by
the United States and the USSR following two catastrophes that
impacted both countries, as blame is cast and consequences are
debated. In this environment, it was perhaps inevitable that
conspiracy theories would arise, especially about the downing of
Korean Air Lines Flight 007 over the Sea of Japan. Those theories
are examined, resulting in at least one method for addressing
conspiracy arguments. In the case of Chernobyl, the disaster
ruptured the "social compact" between the Soviet government and the
people; efforts to overcome the resulting disillusionment quickly
became the focus of state efforts.
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