Putin's dark ages : political neomedievalism and re-Stalinization in Russia /

"This first in-depth comparison of Putin's neomedieval memory politics and re-Stalinization proposes new approaches to the study of the right-wing populist memory in Russia and beyond. Two decades before the war against Ukraine, a "special operation" was launched against the Russ...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Khapaeva, Dina (Author)
Corporate Author:	Taylor & Francis
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.
Series:	Routledge histories of Central and Eastern Europe.
Subjects:	Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich, > 1952- Stalin, Joseph, > 1878-1953 > Influence. Stalin, Joseph, > 1878-1953 Medievalism > Political aspects > Russia (Federation) > History > 21st century. Russia (Federation) > Politics and government > 1991- Médiévisme > Aspect politique > Russie > Histoire > 21e siècle. HISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century HISTORY / Modern / 21st Century Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Politics and government Russia (Federation) Since 1991 History Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Political neomedievalism, the memory of the perpetrators, and mobmemory
Putin's neomedieval politics of history
Post-Soviet historians and religious activists on the medieval oprichnina
The Post-Soviet far right on establishing the new oprichnina
The oprichnina and serfdom in popular culture and public debates
Re-Stalinization in Putin's Russia
Working through the past Russian-Style : mobmemory in Vladimir Sharov's prose
The politics of reversed time : apocalypse as practice.