The Future of the Soviet Past

The Politics of History in Putin's Russia

The Future of the Soviet Past
Nanci Adler, Anton Weiss-Wendt, Kiril Feferman, Johanna Dahlin, Boris Noordenbos, Stephen M Norris, Nikolay Koposov, George Soroka, Stepan Cernousek, Ivan Kurilla
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h229 x 152mm - 270pg
5 Oct 2021 US
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9780253057624
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In post-Soviet Russia, there is a persistent trend to repress, control, or even co-opt national history. By reshaping memory to suit a politically convenient narrative, Russia has fashioned a good future out of a "bad past. " While Putin' s regime has acquired nearly complete control over interpretations of the past, The Future of the Soviet Past reveals that Russia' s inability to fully rewrite its Soviet history plays an essential part in its current political agenda. Diverse contributors consider the many ways in which public narrative shapes Russian culture-from cinema, television, and music to museums, legislature, and education-as well as how patriotism reflected in these forms of culture implies a casual acceptance of the valorization of Stalin and his role in World War II. The Future of the Soviet Past provides effective and nuanced examples of how Russia has reimagined its Soviet history as well as how that past still influences Russia' s policymaking.
Anton Weiss-Wendt is Research Professor at the Norwegian Center for Holocaust and Minority Studies. He is author of the two-volume Documents on the Genocide Convention from the American, British, and Russian Archives; A Rhetorical Crime: Genocide in the Geopolitical Discourse of the Cold War; The Soviet Union and the Gutting of the UN Genocide Convention; and Murder Without Hatred: Estonians and the Holocaust. He is editor of Racial Science in Hitler' s New Europe, 1938-1945 and The Nazi Genocide of the Roma: Reassessment and Commemoration. Nanci Adler is Professor of Memory, History, and Transitional Justice at the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies and the University of Amsterdam. She has authored and/or edited, among others, Keeping Faith with the Party: Communist Believers Return from the Gulag, The Gulag Survivor: Beyond the Soviet System, Victims of Soviet Terror: The Story of the Memorial Movement, and Understanding the Age of Transitional Justice: Crimes, Courts, Commissions, and Chronicling. Her current research focuses on transitional justice and the legacy of Communism.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9780253057624
Published: 5 Oct 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: Indiana University Press
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Pages: 270

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