{"product_id":"cultural-and-political-imaginaries-in-putin-s-russia-9789004366664","title":"Cultural and Political Imaginaries in Putin’s Russia","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Cultural and Political Imaginaries in Putin’s Russia scholars scrutinise developments in official symbolical, cultural and social policies as well as the contradictory trajectories of important cultural, social and intellectual trends in Russian society after the year 2000. Engaging experts on Russia from several academic fields, the book offers case studies on the vicissitudes of cultural policies, political ideologies and imperial visions, on memory politics on the grassroot as well as official levels, and on the links between political and national imaginaries and popular culture in fields as diverse as fashion design and pro-natalist advertising.   Contributors are Niklas Bernsand, Lena Jonson, Ekaterina Kalinina, Natalija Majsova, Olga Malinova, Alena Minchenia, Elena Morenkova-Perrier, Elena Rakhimova-Sommers, Andrei Rogatchevski, Tomas Sniegon, Igor Torbakov, Barbara Törnquist-Plewa, and Yuliya Yurchuk.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents   Notes on Contributors    Introduction: Cultural and Political Imaginaries in Putin’s Russia   Niklas Bernsand and Barbara Törnquist-Plewa    Part 1: Cultural Policy and Ideological Movements  1 Russia: Culture, Cultural Policy, and the Swinging Pendulum of Politics   Lena Jonson  2 ‘Middle Continent’ or ‘Island Russia’: Eurasianist Legacy and Vadim Tsymburskii’s Revisionist Geopolitics   Igor Torbakov  3 Eduard Limonov’s National Bolshevik Party and the Nazi Legacy: Titular Nations vs Ethnic Minorities   Andrei Rogatchevski    Part 2: Memory Politics  4 Constructing the “Usable Past”: the Evolution of the Official Historical Narrative in Post-Soviet Russia   Olga Malinova  5 Dying in the Soviet Gulag for the Future Glory of Mother Russia? Making “Patriotic” Sense of the Gulag in Present-Day Russia   Tomas Sniegon  6 Memory Watchdogs. Online and Offline Mobilizations around Controversial Historical Issues in Russia   Elena Perrier (Morenkova)     Part 3: Popular Culture and Its Embeddedness in Politics  7 “Your Stork Might Disappear Forever!”: Russian Public Awareness Advertising and Incentivizing Motherhood   Elena Rakhimova-Sommers  8 Fashionable Irony and Stiob: the Use of Soviet Heritage in Russian Fashion Design and Soviet Subcultures   Ekaterina Kalinina  9 Humour as a Mode of Hegemonic Control: Comic Representations of Belarusian and Ukrainian Leaders in Official Russian Media   Alena Minchenia, Barbara Törnquist-Plewa and Yuliya Yurchuk  10 The Cosmic Subject in Post-Soviet Russia: Noocosmology, Space-Oriented Spiritualism, and the Problem of the Securitization of the Soul   Natalija Majsova    Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210750746967,"sku":"9789004366664","price":116.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/cultural-and-political-imaginaries-in-putin-s-russia-9789004366664","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}