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Symbolism and the transformation of the national historical narrative in postsoviet Russia
Ch. 33. P. 377–387.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia needed a new symbolism to provide a basis for renewed national identity and a vision of a common past and future. Constructing appropriate symbols became vitally important for cultivating national solidarity and loyalty to the new Russian state. The chapter describes the major stages of evolution of the symbolic programme developed by the Russian state, with a special focus on transformations of the national historical narrative, meaning a shared template for describing the past of the nation in a way that “explains” its present and future.
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"The politics of memory," the use of the past by various political forces to achieve present goals, remains relevant in the Swedish political system in the context of inter-party struggle. This chapter examines the main approaches of Sweden's parliamentary parties to remembering various events of the past. It is shown that there are no fundamental ...
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Aleksander A. Yefanov, Tomin V., Russian Politics 2026 Vol. 11 No. 1 P. 99–125
The article records the symbolic significance of the Russian President’s television
address as a media format in the determinants of the first ‘wave’ of the coronavirus
pandemic (COVID-19). Seven TV addresses, synchronously aired by all Russian federal
TV channels from March to June 2020, are studied. It is determined that the television
address of the President of Russia as ...
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Рябова Т. Б., Рябов О. В., Политическая экспертиза: ПОЛИТЭКС 2019 № 3 С. 95–112
The article analyzes principal regularities in the use of images of childhood and children in the symbolic politics. The authors note the growing politicization of the issues of childhood in the recent years, which determines academic and social relevance of the child study from the Political Science perspective. The paper shows that the symbol of ...
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Рябов О. В., Женщина в российском обществе 2015 № 3/4 С. 78–95
The article deals with the using of the symbol of the Motherland in the symbolic politics in the post-Soviet Russia. The author demonstrates that the maternal symbol of Russia is employed in the politics of the national identity, in the practices of political mobilization, in legitimation and delegitimation of power, in the rhetoric on the ...
Added: January 28, 2026
Kurbatov A., Вестник Пермского университета. Серия: Политология 2026 Т. 19 № 4 С. 38–48
The future is an integral and strategically important component of public political communication. At the same time, attempts to represent the future face the problem of its fundamental uncertainty, the degree of which increases in the context of a special military operation. Nevertheless, even in such conditions, politicians are forced to talk about the future. ...
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Malinova O. Y., Политическая наука 2024 № 4 С. 17–44
The methodological essay argues for the need to rely on the
literature on multimodality research in studies of multimedia exhibitions. The rise of
the role of such projects in Russia is demonstrated by the cases of the historical
parks “Russia – My History”, and of the exhibition-forum “Russia” on the territory
of VDNH, that is also planned to be ...
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Liudmila L. Kléshchenko, Iberoamérica 2023 No. 1 P. 152–175
The article deals with the problem of using images of national heroes in the political process based on two cases — Bolivarianism in Venezuela and Zapatism in Mexico. The scientific novelty of the research lies in the fact that the paper analyzes the features and functions of images of national heroes as political symbols. The ...
Added: September 22, 2024
Клещенко Л. Л., PolitBook 2024 № 3 С. 22–38
The article is devoted to the study of the peculiarities of age as a political symbol and its use in contemporary Russian politics. The theoretical and methodological basis of the research includes the concepts of symbolic politics and a constructivist understanding of age. The study was conducted using survey methods – a semi-structured interview. A ...
Added: September 22, 2024
Tulchinskii G. L., Полис. Политические исследования 2023 № 6 С. 180–188
The emergence and retention of political power presupposes the formation of a certain semantic picture of the world, which explains and justifies the orders implemented by this power. The dominance of such a semantic picture of the world is the basis for the legitimacy of power, the consolidation of society, and a common identity. The ...
Added: January 19, 2024
Malinova O. Y., Karpich Y., Гурин М. Ю., Полис. Политические исследования 2023 № 6 С. 142–160
The article addresses the role of the documentaries demonstrated on Russian TV in constructing the mediatized cultural memory about one of the turning points of the recent history, the failed attempt of the group of Soviet leaders, who composed the State Committee on the State Emergency (GKChP), to remove the president of the Soviet Union ...
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Olga Malinova, , in: Remembering the Neoliberal Turn: Economic Change and Collective Memory in Eastern Europe after 1989.: L.: Routledge, 2023. P. 77–92.
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Gökarıksel S., Gontarska O., Hilmar T. et al., L.: Routledge, 2023.
his book discusses how societies, groups and individuals remember and make sense of global neoliberal change in Eastern Europe. Such an investigation is all the more timely as the 1990s are increasingly looked to for answers explaining the populist and nationalist turn across the globe.
The volume shows how the key processes that impacted many lives ...
Added: November 12, 2023
Olga Malinova, , in: Routledge Handbook of Russian Politics and Society.: Routledge, 2022. Ch. 33 P. 377–387.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia needed a new symbolism to provide a basis for renewed national identity and a vision of a common past and future. This chapter describes the major stages of evolution of the symbolic programme developed by the Russian state, with a special focus on transformations of the national ...
Added: November 12, 2023
Kozylov I., В кн.: Россия – Китай: развитие регионального сотрудничества в XXI веке : материалы XIX Международной научно-практической конференции.: Чита: Забайкальский государственный университет, 2021. С. 137–145.
The article deals with the features, structural and substantive aspects of the PRC’s memory politics in the era of Xi Jinping in the context of Sino-Japanese relations. The author attempts to verify a hypothesis that one of the main causes of the chronic crisis in relations between the PRC and Japan is the memory politics ...
Added: October 4, 2023
Semenenko I. S., Мировая экономика и международные отношения 2022 Т. 66 № 7 С. 81–93
Divided societies project new cleavages into the contemporary divided world. Assessing cleavages as drivers of social change and evaluating their positive potential versus evident negative impacts is a key element for forecasting prospects of social development. The paper addresses social and economic statistical data, opinion polls and academic research input of the past decade to ...
Added: April 19, 2023
Malinova O. Y., Карпова Н. В., Политическая наука 2023 № 1 С. 113–138
The article contributes to the literature about the key actors of the Russian politics of memory, as public activity focused at promotion of specific interpretations of collective past. It takes the transformations of the federal law “On the days of military glory and commemorative dates of Russia” as a case for analysis of the role ...
Added: March 17, 2023
Malinova O. Y., Вопросы философии 2023 № 2 С. 5–9
The article discusses the methodological issues involved in using the concept of “ideology”, which arise from its complex character. “Ideology” cannot be easily reduced to one single meaning, as far as it bears trails of multiple (and sometimes opposite) meanings that it had got through its long intellectual history. As a result, this concept has ...
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М.: Институт научной информации по общественным наукам РАН, 2023.
В монографии исследуются тематический репертуар политики памяти в регионах современной России, структуры взаимодействия локальных и федеральных акторов по проблемам политической интерпретации исторического прошлого. Рассмотрены теоретические и научно-практические вопросы определения географических рамок исследования, возможности применения сравнительного подхода и изучения трансрегиональных взаимодействий. Адресуется исследователям политики памяти и мемориальной культуры, государственным и общественным деятелям, преподавателям и студентам, занимающимся ...
Added: March 16, 2023