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.

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• VerfasserIn: Williams, David Cratis,; Launer, Michael K.,; Young, Marilyn J.,
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• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
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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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Photos -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Note to Readers -- Alexander Yuriev -- Dedication Alexander Ivanovich Yuriev (1942–2020) -- Alexander Yuriev -- 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