Tsars, Soviets, Putin : A Study of Russia's Politics of History

Wojciech Materski's book From the Tsars to "The Tsar" gives a synopsis of the politics of memory practiced by Russia from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century. He shows how irrespectively of the period in its history, Russia's politics of memory have always been used as a to...

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Main Author: Materski, Wojciech
Format: eBook
Language:Undetermined
Published: De Gruyter 2025
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • Chapter One In the Tsar's Empire
  • Chapter Two From Lenin to Stalin
  • Chapter Three From Khrushchev to Chernenko
  • Chapter Four Gorbachev and the traps of glasnost'
  • Chapter Five The 1990s, Yeltsin's decade
  • Chapter Six The twenty-first century and Vladimir Putin
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Persons