The Rhetorical Rise and Demise of “Democracy” in Russian Political Discourse. Volume 2: : : The Promise of “Democracy” during the Yeltsin Years / / David Cratis Williams, Marilyn J. Young, Michael K. Launer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
• VerfasserIn: Williams, David Cratis,; Launer, Michael K.,; Young, Marilyn J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (470 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Photos --; Acknowledgements --; Contributors --; Note to Readers --; Alexander Yuriev --; Dedication Alexander Ivanovich Yuriev (1942–2020) --; Preface --; Marilyn Young at a Political Communication Conference --; Introduction to Volume Two --; Yeltsin and Gorbachev --; Part One: Framework for Understanding the Immediate Post-Soviet Political Environment: Ecological Depredation, Economic Challenges, the Press, and National Identity --; Yeltsin Standing on a Tank 1991 --; 1. A New Day for the Soviet Environment --; 2. The Former Soviet Union Leaves Environmental Legacy of Shame --; 3. Review of Environmental Management in the Soviet Union by Philip R. Pryde --; 4. Russian Scientists Struggle to Survive --; 5. Review of The Russian Press from Brezhnev to Yeltsin: Behind the Paper Curtain by John Murray --; 6. Argumentation, Globalization, and the New Nationalism: Implications and New Directions --; Part Two: Politics and Political Argumentation during the Yeltsin Years --; 7. Democratization and Cultures of Communication: The Mission of the International Center for the Advancement of Political Communication and Argumentation --; 8. The Role of Public Argument in Emerging Democracies: A Case Study of the December 12, 1993, Elections in the Russian Federation --; 9. Analysis of Political Argumentation and Party Campaigning Prior to the 1993 and 1995 State Duma Elections: Lessons Learned and Not Learned --; 10. Argument and Political Party Formulations: A Continuing Case Study of Democratization in the Russian Federation --; 11. Russian Electoral Politics and the Search for National Identity --; Yeltsin Campaign Photograph --; Runoff Election Sample Ballot --; Choose or Lose—Campaign Button --; Choose or Lose—T-shirt Front --; Choose or Lose—T-shirt Back --; Choose or Lose—Globe and Barbed Wire --; Choose or Lose—Jeans Jacket and Prison Garb --; 12. Frameworks for Russian Identity: Arguing the Past, Defining the Future --; 13. Historical Metaphor and the Search for National Identity in Russia --; 14. Russia’s First Elected President Buries Its Last Czar: Reclaiming Cultural Memory in the Search for National Identity --; Part Three: Yeltsin’s Multiple Political Profiles (The Three Faces of Boris) --; 15. Yeltsin as an Autocrat: The “Constitutional Crisis of 1993” as the Beginning of the End of Russian Democracy --; Shelling of the White House --; 16. Yeltsin as a Democrat: A Lexical Content Analysis of His Presidential Addresses to the Federal Assembly 1994–1999 --; 17. Yeltsin as a Man of the People: A Case Study of His Campaign Rhetoric during the 1996 Russian Presidential Election --; Yeltsin on the Campaign Trail “It is still not easy living in Russia” --; Part Four: Looking Backward, Looking Forward --; Clinton and Yeltsin Shaking Hands --; 18. Ten Years of Frustration: Transitional Rhetoric and Democratization in the Russian Federation --; 19. The Fear of Politics and the Politics of Fear in Russia— Images in the US Media --; 20. Echoes of Berlin 1989: Post-Soviet Discourse and the Rhetoric of National Unity --; 21. Foreign Policy Challenges and The Historical “Anchors” of Russian Federation Foreign Policy after September 11, 2001 --; Alexei Salmin --; 22. Instant Democracy: Rhetorical Crises and the Russian Federation, 1991–2007 --; Yeltsin and Putin in the President’s Office --; Afterword --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781644696514; 9783110767414; 9783110767001; 9783110993899; 9783110994810; 9783110994513; 9783110994407
• DOI: 10.1515/9781644696514?locatt=mode:legacy
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• Statement of Responsibility: David Cratis Williams, Marilyn J. Young, Michael K. Launer.

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.