The Quest for an Ideal Youth in Putin's Russia II

2. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-3-8382-0415-4
Verlag: ibidem-Verlag

Buch, Englisch, Band 115, 228 Seiten, PB, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 301 g

Reihe: Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society

The so-called Democratic Antifascist Youth Movement “Nashi” represents a crucial case of a post-Orange government-organized formation whose values have broad support in Russian society. Yet, at the same time, in view of the movement’s public scandals, Nashi was also a phenomenon bringing to the fore public reluctance to accept all implications of Putin’s new system. The Russian people’s relatively widespread support for his patriotic policies and conservative values has been evident, but this support is not easily extended to political actors aligned to these values. Using discourse analysis, this book identifies socio-political factors that created obstacles to Nashi’s communication strategies. The book understands Nashi as anticipating an “ideal youth” within the framework of official national identity politics and as an attempt to mobilize largely apolitical youngsters in support of the powers that be. It demonstrates how Nashi’s ambivalent societal position was the result of a failed attempt to reconcile incompatible communicative demands of the authoritarian state and apolitical young.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lassila, Jussi

Weitere Mitwirkende

Postoutenko, Kirill

Umland, Andreas

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Nichtregierungsorganisation (NGOs)
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Kommunikation und Partizipation
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Propaganda & Kampagnen, Politik & Medien

Über Autor(innen)

Postoutenko, Kirill
Dr. Kirill Postoutenko is a Marie Curie Fellow at Queen Mary University of London.

Lassila, Jussi
Dr. Jussi Lassila is a Memory at War Project Researcher at the Aleksanteri Institute, Finnish Centre for Russian and Eastern European Sudies, of the University of Helsinki. His papers have been published in the journals Demokratizatsiya, Canadian Slavonic Papers, Forum noveishei vostochnoevropeiskoi istorii i kul’tury, and Finnish Review of East European Studies as well as in numerous collected volumes.

Dr. Jussi Lassila is a researcher at the Aleksanteri Institute (Finnish Centre for Russian and Eastern European Studies) of the University of Helsinki.