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Book SynopsisThe Russian war in Ukraine has been accompanied, fuelled and legitimized by a Russian information war campaign that is unprecedented in its scope and nature. Increasingly lurid in form, sometimes surreal, the Russian state-media propaganda campaign has been surprisingly successful in disguising and distorting the nature of the war and shaping the way it is perceived and understood, both in Russia and beyond.This special issue sets out to launch an interdisciplinary discussion on the Russian information warfare being waged in parallel with the military war in Ukraine. How is the war being packaged and narrated for domestic and international audiences? How are these narratives being received in Russia and in the West? How do we interpret and explain the imperial hysteria and hatred currently on display on Russian TV? What are the appropriate responses? How can we avoid the trap of allowing Kremlin propagandists to shape the terms and language in which the war is viewed? The JOURNAL OF SOVIET AND POST-SOVIET POLITICS AND SOCIETY is a new bi-annual journal about to be launched as a companion journal to the Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society book series (founded 2004 and edited by Andreas Umland, Dr. phil., Ph. D.). Like the book series, the journal will provide an interdisciplinary forum for new original research on the Soviet and post-Soviet world. The journal aims to become known for publishing creative, intelligent and lively writing tackling and illuminating significant issues and capable of engaging wider educated audiences beyond the academy.
Trade ReviewFedors book has filled a historiographical gap [] The author gives us the keys necessary for decoding these [] discourses and, beyond that, the worldview of these men, an indispensable method for gaining knowledge of the Soviet past but also, in Putins Russia, for understanding the Russian present. -- Andrei Kozovoi, University of Lille 3, France; Cahiers du monde russe, 52: 4 (2012)
Extremely informative and detailed ... an excellent book, well researched, cogently argued, and articulately presented with intelligence and witDavid Gillespie, University of Bath, UK, The Russian Review 72:1 (2013)
The motivations for the Pussy Riot singers' trial and conviction in 2012 are all exposed in this book ... written before the actual event Marie Mendras, Sciences Po, France; International Affairs 89: 1 (2013)
attentive [and] thoughtful ... Many of the themes touched upon in the book open up interesting research perspectives -- Andriy Portnov, Neprikosnovennyi zapas, Russia, 81:1 (2012)
This book, a rare example of collective scholarship, is more than path-breaking. It manages to move around the furniture in an entire field, that of memory studies, one that is shared by literary scholars, linguists, anthropologists, psychologists, historians and others. This exploration of memory events is essential reading for all students in the social sciences and humanities. Jay Winter, Yale University
In an exemplary way, this multi-disciplinary in-depth case study reconstructs the symbolic legacy of Katyn as a transnational trauma. The book is a unique collective achievement with genuine potential to integrate this key event into European memory Aleida Assmann, University of Konstanz
The crime of Katyn has bedeviled European memory for decades, and only an ambitious pan-European effort such as this one can reveal every angle of the problem - and some of the solutions. Timothy Snyder, Yale University
an excellent and innovative study that charts out an extraordinarily complex subject with sensitivity and sophistication Kevin M. F. Platt, University of Pennsylvania, in Slavic Review, 73:1 (Spring 2014)
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Russian Media and the War in Ukraine, by Julie Fedor Putin's Crimea Speech, 18 March 2014: Russia's Changing Public Political Narrative, by Edwin Bacon Filtering Foreign Media Content: How Russian News Agencies Repurpose Western News Reporting, by Rolf Fredheim "Gayromaidan": Gendered Aspects of the Hegemonic Russian Media Discourse on the Ukrainian Crisis, by Tatiana Riabova and Oleg Riabov Historical Myths, Enemy Images, and Regional Identity in the Donbass Insurgency (Spring 2014), by Alexandr Osipian Memory, Media, and Securitization: Russian Media Framing of the Ukrainian Crisis, by Elizaveta Gaufman Combating the Russian State Propaganda Machine: Strategies of Information Resistance, by Tatiana Bonch-Osmolovskaya Infiltration, Instruction, Invasion: Russia's War in the Donbass, by Nikolay Mitrokhin Ukraine and the Global Information War: Panel Discussion and Forum, Featuring: Anne Applebaum; Margarita Akhvlediani; Sabra Ayres; Renaud de la Brosse; Rory Finnin; James Marson; Sarah Oates; Simon Ostrovsky; Kevin M. F. Platt; Peter Pomerantsev; Natalia Rulyova; Michael Weiss; Maksym Yakovlyev; Vera Zvereva Reviews Rasmus Nilsson on Andrew Wilson and Richard Sakwa Anders Aslund on Karen Dawisha Mykola Riabchuk on David Marples/Frederick Mills
