Memory Makers: The Politics of the Past in Putin's Russia
Autor Jade McGlynnen Limba Engleză Hardback – 31 mai 2023
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1350280763
Pagini: 248
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Cuprins
AcknowledgementsNote on Transliteration, Translation and Citation StyleList of Abbreviations1. Taking Back Control of History2. The Kremlin's Memory Policies3. Past as Present: The Historical Framing of Ukraine, Sanctions and Syria4. Amplifying the Call to History5. Living Forms of Patriotism6. Attaining Cultural Consciousness7. The Endlessness of HistoryReferencesIndex
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McGlynn presents a powerful and disturbing case that the invasion had a convincing historical logic to it, for Vladimir Putin and for Russians more generally. . . . As if to prove McGlynn's point, historically based justifications for Russian policy and alleged plots by the West form terrifyingly explicit parts of Russia's most recent National Security Strategy. Her insightful and creative analysis suggests that we are in for a long conflict not just over the fate of Ukraine, but also over how differing memories of the past will continue to shape the future.
McGlynn's informative study of Russia's "memory wars" shows just how easily performance, media narratives and cultural priming can slip into real violence.
Memory Makers makes for fascinating reading . [It] should be required reading for anyone wishing to engage in Russian politics, scholars, journalists, policy-makers alike.
Pithy and tightly argued.
Scholarly, revelatory and deeply unsettling . Dr McGlynn's brilliant, remorseless study inculpates almost the entire Russian nation.
History is back - armed with artillery and with a commitment to genocide. Jade McGlynn's highly timely study shows how Putin weaponises the past to destroy the future
As Vladimir Putin presents his imperial adventure in Ukraine as a twenty-first century re-run of the Great Patriotic War against the Nazis, it has never been more crucial to understand the degree to which his regime seeks to legitimise itself by the rewriting of history, and Jade McGlynn provides a deeply-argued and nuanced analysis of this pernicious process.
Jade McGlynn explains why Russians back the senseless war on Ukraine - because of the state's abuse of history as a tool to legitimate Russia's return to empire.
McGlynn's fascinating study shows how Russian memory politics does much more than evoke memories of World War Two. Its particular propaganda form is to replay and conflate the past and the present. Events in Ukraine in 2014 are not just said to echo those of the 1940s, footage and commentary are literately spliced together; Russia's intervention in Syria is depicted as the Cold War that wasn't, with Moscow victorious.
Painstakingly dissects the genesis, defining features and aims of the Kremlin's manyfold (ab)uses of history in the last decade...Jade McGlynn's book is much-needed reading for scholars who want to dig deeper into the discourse underpinning Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine and the political use of history in today's world more generally. Through thorough and painstaking analysis, the author engages with this narrative very seriously, dissecting its key tenets, examining where it comes from - and, sadly, where it is leading Russia and its people.
Descriere
Why aren't ordinary Russians more outraged by Putin's invasion of Ukraine? Inside the Kremlin's own historical propaganda narratives, Russia's invasion of Ukraine makes complete sense. From its World War II cult to anti-Western conspiracy theories, the Kremlin has long used myth and memory to legitimize repression at home and imperialism abroad, its patriotic history resonating with and persuading large swathes of the Russian population. In Memory Makers, Russia analyst Jade McGlynn takes us into the depths of Russian historical propaganda, revealing the chilling web of nationwide narratives and practices perforating everyday life, from after-school patriotic history clubs to tower block World War II murals. The use of history to manifest a particular Russian identity has had grotesque, even gruesome, consequences, but it belongs to a global political pattern - where one's view of history is the ultimate marker of political loyalty, patriotism and national belonging. Memory Makers demonstrates how the extreme Russian experience is a stark warning to other nations tempted to stare too long at the reflection of their own imagined and heroic past.