Mythmaking in the New Russia : : Politics and Memory in the Yeltsin Era / / Kathleen E. Smith.
After the collapse of Communist rule in 1991, those loyal to the old regime tried to salvage their political dreams by rejecting some aspects of their history and embracing others. Yeltsin and the democrats, although initially hesitant to rely on the patriotic mythmaking they associated with Communi...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©2002 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 p.) :; 15 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Memory And Postcommunist Politics
- 2. Rewriting Communist Party History In The Constitutional Court
- 3. Remembering August 1991: Founding Moment Or Farce?
- 4. Disposing Of The Spoils Of World War Ii
- 5. Recasting The Commemorative Calendar
- 6. Remaking The Capital’S Landscape
- 7. Campaigning On The Past In The 1996 Presidential Race
- 8. Searching For A New Russian Idea
- 9. Patriotic Divisions
- Notes
- Index