Historical narratives in the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia [electronic resource] : destroying the settled past, creating an uncertain future / Thomas Sherlock
出版項
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
版本
1st ed
說明
viii, 271 p
附註
Electronic reproduction. Basingstoke, England : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Mode of access:World Wide Web. System requirements: Web browser. Title from title screen (viewed on Mar. 3, 2009). Access may berestricted to users at subscribing institutions
This book investigates the significance of historical narratives in Soviet and post-Soviet space. Encompassing reform under Mikhail Gorbachev and retrenchment under Vladimir Putin, it explains the political, social, and cultural importance of a polity?s myths. Charting the rise ofanti-Soviet and anti-communist narratives under perestroika, and theireventual marginalization in post-Soviet Russia, the book argues that changes in symbolic politics must be examined within cultural, socio-political, and international contexts. Of particular relevance is the interactive relationship between state and society. The study of historicaldiscourse must focus not only on how and why the state imposes its discursive preferences on society, thereby shaping public memory, but alsoon why and how thestate itself is constructed by prevailing narratives in society
Myth and History in Transitions From Nondemocratic Rule -- Authorizing Reform By Uncovering the Past -- Leninist Mythology and Reform -- Assessing the Genesis of Stalinism -- Societal Conquest and the Decay of the Center -- Myth, History, and Separatism in the Periphery -- Historyand Myth in the Post-Soviet Space
Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-262) and index
