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The Symbol of the Motherland in the Legitimation and Delegitimation of Power in Contemporary Russia
Nationalities Papers: The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity. 2020. No. 4. P. 752–767.
Рябов О. В.
Рябов О. В., Рябова Т. Б., Клещенко Л. Л., REGION: Regional Studies of Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia 2022 Vol. 11 No. 2 P. 235–252
In 2017-2021, the symbol of childhood became especially noticeable in the political life of Russia due to participation of the minors in protest activity and involvement of the age factor in political rhetoric.
Based on the analysis of political discourse, media publications and series of interviews, the authors conclude that the slogan of saving children served ...
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Рябов О. В., , in: Meanings and Values of Water in Russian CultureVol. 34.: L.: Routledge, 2016. P. 81–97.
For centuries “Mother Russia” has been one of the most important symbols of Russian culture. This symbol has been formed by various factors, which cannot be considered without analyzing another well-known maternal symbol – “Mother Volga.” Just how popular is the symbol of “Mother Volga” in Russian culture? What traits are attributed to it? How ...
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Riabov, Oleg V., , in: Russian Culture in War and Revolution, 1914-22. Book 2Book 2: Political Culture, Identities, Mentalities, and Memory.: Bloomington: Slavica Publishers, 2014. P. 73–98.
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Рябов О. В., REGION: Regional Studies of Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia 2020 Vol. 9 No. 1 P. 139–168
The study focuses on the way in which the satirical graphic art of the Russian Revolution of 1905 used the image of the bear to represent revolutionary events and both supporters and opponents of the autocracy. The author comes to the conclusion that this time period saw the emergence of the bear as a political ...
Added: February 26, 2026
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 ...
Added: January 28, 2026
Рябов О. В., Женщина в российском обществе 2017 № 2 С. 84–97
The article, focusing on Russian satirical journals research, dwells upon role of the symbol of the Motherland in discourses of Russian revolutions of 1905 and 1917. The author points out that the symbol was exploited by majority of political forces. The authorities employed it in maintaining legitimacy of power. The author discerns two modes of ...
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Рябов О. В., Рябова Т. Б., Problems of Post-Communism 2014 No. 2 P. 23–35
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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
Ермоленко Г. А., Кожевников С. Б., В кн.: Модусы социального и концепт человека (философские размышления): коллективная монография.: М.: "Галлея-принт", 2024. Гл. 2.1 С. 97–104.
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Kuziner I., Ab imperio 2024 No. 1 P. 63–96
This article studies the rise and fall of the Red Death legend as a modern media phenomenon during the last decades of the Russian Empire. From the very beginning, Nikonian anti-sectarian propaganda accused Russian Old Believers of fanatically inhumane practices, which translated into the urban legends of human sacrifices practiced by some heterodox religious communities. ...
Added: May 15, 2024
Abingdon: Routledge, 2024.
This book explores Russia’s sense of its own uniqueness and the impact this has had on Russia’s conduct of international relations. Examining concepts such as Russia’s special civilising mission, its difference from the West, its proneness to conduct violent warfare, and more, and discussing these concepts in relation to Russia’s history and its present behaviour, ...
Added: October 28, 2023
Vdovin A., Russian Review 2024 Vol. 83 No. 1 P. 108–125
This article explores the issue of Russian imperial nationalism in the early phase of its formation, namely the nationalization of patriotism in literature during the Crimean War, 1853–56. Using historical studies and theories of nationalism, the author shows how and why an acute discourse of a nationalistic experience of community uniting the elite with the ...
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Kusimova T., , in: The Ambivalence of Power in the Twenty-First Century Economy: Cases from Russia and beyond.: L.: UCL Press, 2022. P. 280–299.
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National Identity and the Perception of Geographical Space in Contemporary Russian Political Thought
Pizzolo P., Quarta E., Politics. Rivista di Studi Politici (Италия) 2020 Vol. 1 No. 13 P. 129–148
This paper investigates the evolution of the concept of Russian identity in relation to the geographical and cultural features of Russian political thought. It observes the liaison between Russian national identity and the concept of Russian-Eurasian space. Despite the regime changes of the last century, it is argued, Russia has often perceived itself as a ...
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Vasilenko Y. V., Zerolo Durán A., , in: Nuevos retos para la democracia liberal. Nacionalismos y populismos en Europa.: Valencia: CEU Universidad San Pablo, 2021. Ch. 5 P. 153–189.
The imperial idea has deep roots in Russia. Since the XVI century, the Russian state as the "third Rome" and the direct heir of Byzantium expanded in three directions: to the West during defensive wars against the Poles, Swedes, French and Germans; to the South due to victories in offensive wars against the Turks with access ...
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Pochekaev R. Y., Ulan-Bator: NEPKO Publishing, 2020.
Монгольский перевод книги "Узурпаторы и самозванцы "степных империй". История тюрко-монгольских государств в переворотах, мятежах и иностранных завоеваниях" ...
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Pain E. A., , in: Russia Before and After Crimea.: Edinburgh University Press, 2018. P. 23–49.
This chapter focuses on the dynamics of the historical role and ideational content of Russian nationalism from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present. It discusses the under-studied question of the mutual relationship between two manifestations of Russian nationalism: state nationalism and grassroots nationalism. The latter variety has appeared in Russia as a carrier of ...
Added: January 28, 2020
Pain E. A., Общественные науки и современность 2015 № 2 С. 54–71
The author responds to fundamental theoretical problem about the reasons for the reproduction of some imperial characteristics in the politics of post-Soviet Russia and proposes his theoretical construct – ‘imperial syndrome’. The bulk of the article addresses the specific characteristics of the evolution of the idea of the nation and nationalism in Russia. It attempts ...
Added: January 28, 2020
Glushkov A., Вестник Пермского университета. Серия: История 2012 № 3 С. 180–183
The article reviews the book of the American historian E. Lohr "Nationalizing the Russian Empire: The Campaign against Enemy Aliens during World War I". ...
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Glushkov A., Вестник Пермского университета. Серия: История 2012 № 18 С. 271–277
In spite of the evident progress in the study of Russian conservatism in the beginning of XXth century, which was achieved during the last 20 years, ideology and political activity and the role of the forward-looking nationalists in the activity of Progressive block did not become the object of detailed research. During the long period ...
Added: November 20, 2019
Glushkov A., Вестник Пермского университета. Серия: История 2011 № 3 С. 16–19
The article analyzes domestic and foreign historiography of the "progressive nationalists" (progressivnie natsionalisty), who united Russian conservative elements in the Progressive block of Russian State Duma. ...
Added: November 20, 2019