Memory Politics and the Russian Civil War
Reds versus Whites
1st Edition
Published on 12. November 2020
168 pages
978-1-350-14997-7 (ISBN)
Description
In examining the re-emergence of Russia's White Movement, Memory Politics and the Russian Civil War gets to the heart of the rich 20th-century memory debates going on in Putin's Russia today.
The Kremlin has been giving preference to a Soviet-lite nostalgia that denounces the 1917 Bolshevik revolution but celebrates the birth of a powerful Soviet Union able to bring the country to the forefront of the international scene after the victory in World War II. Yet in parallel, another historical narrative has gradually consolidated on the Russian public scene, one that favours the opposite camp, namely the White movement and the pro-tsarist groups defeated in the early 1920s. This book offers the first comprehensive exploration of this 'White Revenge', looking at the different actors who promote a White and pro-Romanov rehabilitation agenda in the political, ideological and cultural arenas and what this historical agenda might mean for Russia, both today and tomorrow.
The Kremlin has been giving preference to a Soviet-lite nostalgia that denounces the 1917 Bolshevik revolution but celebrates the birth of a powerful Soviet Union able to bring the country to the forefront of the international scene after the victory in World War II. Yet in parallel, another historical narrative has gradually consolidated on the Russian public scene, one that favours the opposite camp, namely the White movement and the pro-tsarist groups defeated in the early 1920s. This book offers the first comprehensive exploration of this 'White Revenge', looking at the different actors who promote a White and pro-Romanov rehabilitation agenda in the political, ideological and cultural arenas and what this historical agenda might mean for Russia, both today and tomorrow.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Illustrations
8 bw illus
ISBN-13
978-1-350-14997-7 (9781350149977)
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Persons
Marlene Laruelle is Associate Director and Research Professor at the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES) at The George Washington University, USA. She is the author of several books, including Russian Eurasianism: An Ideology of Empire (2008), In the Name of the Nation: Nationalism and Politics in Contemporary Russia (2009), and Understanding Russia: The Challenges of Transformation (2018).
Margarita Karnysheva is an independent researcher from Russia working on the Russian Civil War, Soviet military history, and contemporary Russia's politics of memory. She received her PhD in history of Japan and Soviet military history from the University of Kansas, USA.
Margarita Karnysheva is an independent researcher from Russia working on the Russian Civil War, Soviet military history, and contemporary Russia's politics of memory. She received her PhD in history of Japan and Soviet military history from the University of Kansas, USA.
Content
List of Images
Introduction
1. White Historical Romanticism in Soviet Culture and Politics
2. Rehabilitation: Judicial, Cultural, Symbolic?
3. The Church's Conquest of the Memory Market
4. White Thinkers: What Room in the Regime's Ideology?
5. Cultural Reverberations of the White Past
Conclusion
Index
Introduction
1. White Historical Romanticism in Soviet Culture and Politics
2. Rehabilitation: Judicial, Cultural, Symbolic?
3. The Church's Conquest of the Memory Market
4. White Thinkers: What Room in the Regime's Ideology?
5. Cultural Reverberations of the White Past
Conclusion
Index
