Cultural and Political Imaginaries in Putin's Russia

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-36666-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 11, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 544 g

Reihe: Eurasian Studies Library

In Cultural and Political Imaginaries in Putin’s Russia scholars scrutinise developments in official symbolical, cultural and social policies as well as the contradictory trajectories of important cultural, social and intellectual trends in Russian society after the year 2000. Engaging experts on Russia from several academic fields, the book offers case studies on the vicissitudes of cultural policies, political ideologies and imperial visions, on memory politics on the grassroot as well as official levels, and on the links between political and national imaginaries and popular culture in fields as diverse as fashion design and pro-natalist advertising.

Contributors are Niklas Bernsand, Lena Jonson, Ekaterina Kalinina, Natalija Majsova, Olga Malinova, Alena Minchenia, Elena Morenkova-Perrier, Elena Rakhimova-Sommers, Andrei Rogatchevski, Tomas Sniegon, Igor Torbakov, Barbara Törnquist-Plewa, and Yuliya Yurchuk.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Bernsand, Niklas

Törnquist-Plewa, Barbara

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Cultural and Political Imaginaries in Putin’s Russia

Niklas Bernsand and Barbara Törnquist-Plewa

Part 1: Cultural Policy and Ideological Movements

1 Russia: Culture, Cultural Policy, and the Swinging Pendulum of Politics

Lena Jonson

2 ‘Middle Continent’ or ‘Island Russia’: Eurasianist Legacy and Vadim Tsymburskii’s Revisionist Geopolitics

Igor Torbakov

3 Eduard Limonov’s National Bolshevik Party and the Nazi Legacy: Titular Nations vs Ethnic Minorities

Andrei Rogatchevski

Part 2: Memory Politics

4 Constructing the “Usable Past”: the Evolution of the Official Historical Narrative in Post-Soviet Russia

Olga Malinova

5 Dying in the Soviet Gulag for the Future Glory of Mother Russia? Making “Patriotic” Sense of the Gulag in Present-Day Russia

Tomas Sniegon

6 Memory Watchdogs. Online and Offline Mobilizations around Controversial Historical Issues in Russia

Elena Perrier (Morenkova)

Part 3: Popular Culture and Its Embeddedness in Politics

7 “Your Stork Might Disappear Forever!”: Russian Public Awareness Advertising and Incentivizing Motherhood

Elena Rakhimova-Sommers

8 Fashionable Irony and Stiob: the Use of Soviet Heritage in Russian Fashion Design and Soviet Subcultures

Ekaterina Kalinina

9 Humour as a Mode of Hegemonic Control: Comic Representations of Belarusian and Ukrainian Leaders in Official Russian Media

Alena Minchenia, Barbara Törnquist-Plewa and Yuliya Yurchuk

10 The Cosmic Subject in Post-Soviet Russia: Noocosmology, Space-Oriented Spiritualism, and the Problem of the Securitization of the Soul

Natalija Majsova

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Niklas Bernsand, researcher, Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University. His main research interests concern memory, cultural diversity and language in Ukraine.

Barbara Törnquist-Plewa, Ph. D. (1992), Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University. She has published extensively on nationalism, identity and collective memories, including The Twentieth Century in European Memory (Brill 2017), and Whose Memory? Which Future? Remembering Ethnic Cleansing And Lost Cultural Diversity in Eastern, Central and Southeastern Europe (Berghahn 2016).