The Rhetorical Rise and Demise of Democracy in Russian Political Discourse. Volume 2 The Promise of Democracy During the Yeltsin Years.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Williams, David Cratis
Other Authors: Young, Marilyn J., Launer, Michael K.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press, 2022.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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