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Examines the ideology of sacrifice in Soviet and post-Soviet
culture, analyzing a range of fictional and real-life figures who
became part of a pantheon of "heroes" primarily because of their
victimhood. In Making Martyrs: The Language of Sacrifice in Russian
Culture from Stalin to Putin, Yuliya Minkova examines the language
of canonization and vilification in Soviet and post-Soviet media,
official literature, and popular culture. She argues that early
Soviet narratives constructed stories of national heroes and
villains alike as examples of uncovering a person's "true self."
The official culture used such stories to encourage heroic
self-fashioningamong Soviet youth and as a means of self-policing
and censure. Later Soviet narratives maintained this sacrificial
imagery in order to assert the continued hold of Soviet ideology on
society, while post-Soviet discourses of victimhood appeal to
nationalist nostalgia. Sacrificial mythology continues to maintain
a persistent hold in contemporary culture, as evidenced most
recently by the Russian intelligentsia's fascination with the
former oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the Russian media coverage of
the war in Ukraine, laws against US adoption of Russian children
and against the alleged propaganda of homosexuality aimed at
minors, renewed national pride in wartime heroes, and the current
usage of the words "sacred victim" in public discourse. In
examining these various cases, the book traces the trajectory of
sacrificial language from individual identity construction to its
later function of lending personality and authority to the Soviet
and post-Soviet state. Yuliya Minkova is Assistant Professor of
Russian at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
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