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Post-Soviet Russia in the 1990s saw a surge in civic participation. The traditional power structure officially relinquished control of political rhetoric and a nascent civil society had begun to emerge. Free elections and political partisanship between reformist and conservative elements of Russian society, spurred on by Russia’s economic troubles, gave a “Wild West” tenor to public rhetoric that was reflected in the election campaigns of 1993, 1995, and 1996. In this volume, the authors examine, through a series of contemporaneously written essays, the arc of government rhetoric during the height of media freedom, the quest for a new national identity, and the struggle for self-government.


Table of Contents

List of Photos
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Note to Readers


Alexander Yuriev
Alexander Yuriev

Dedication: Alexander Ivanovich Yuriev (1942–2020)
Alexander Yuriev

Preface

Marilyn Young at a Political Communication Conference

Introduction to Volume Two

Yeltsin and Gorbachev

Part One: Framework for Understanding the Immediate Post-Soviet Political Environment: Ecological Depredation, Economic Challenges, the Press, and National Identity

Yeltsin Standing on a Tank 1991

  1. A New Day for the Soviet Environment

  2. The Former Soviet Union Leaves Environmental Legacy of Shame

  3. Review of Environmental Management in the Soviet Union by Philip R. Pryde

  4. Russian Scientists Struggle to Survive

  5. Review of The Russian Press from Brezhnev to Yeltsin: Behind the Paper Curtain by John Murray

  6. Argumentation, Globalization, and the New Nationalism: Implications and New Directions

Part Two: Politics and Political Argumentation during the Yeltsin Years

  1. Democratization and Cultures of Communication: The Mission of the International Center for the Advancement of Political Communication and Argumentation

  2. The Role of Public Argument in Emerging Democracies: A Case Study of the December 12, 1993, Elections in the Russian Federation

  3. Analysis of Political Argumentation and Party Campaigning Prior to the 1993 and 1995 State Duma Elections: Lessons Learned and Not Learned

  4. Argument and Political Party Formulations: A Continuing Case Study of Democratization in the Russian Federation

  5. Russian Electoral Politics and the Search for National Identity

Yeltsin Campaign Photograph

Runoff Election Sample Ballot

Choose or Lose: Campaign Button

Choose or Lose: T-shirt Front

Choose or Lose: T-shirt Back

Choose or Lose: Globe and Barbed Wire

Choose or Lose: Jeans Jacket and Prison Garb

  1. Frameworks for Russian Identity: Arguing the Past, Defining the Future

  2. Historical Metaphor and the Search for National Identity in Russia

  3. Russia’s First Elected President Buries Its Last Czar: Reclaiming Cultural Memory in the Search for National Identity

Part Three: Yeltsin’s Multiple Political Profiles (The Three Faces of Boris)

  1. Yeltsin as an Autocrat: The “Constitutional Crisis of 1993” as the Beginning of the End of Russian Democracy

Shelling of the White House

Shelling of the White House

Shelling of the White House

  1. Yeltsin as a Democrat: A Lexical Content Analysis of his Presidential Addresses to the Federal Assembly 1994–1999

  2. Yeltsin as a Man of the People: A Case Study of His Campaign Rhetoric during the 1996 Russian Presidential Election

Yeltsin on the Campaign Trail

Part Four: Looking Backward, Looking Forward

  1. Ten Years of Frustration: Transitional Rhetoric and Democratization in the Russian Federation

  2. The Fear of Politics and the Politics of Fear in Russia—Images in the US Media

  3. Echoes of Berlin 1989: Post-Soviet Discourse and the Rhetoric of National Unity

  4. Foreign Policy Challenges and The Historical “Anchors” of Russian Federation Foreign Policy after September 11, 2001

Alexei Salmin

  1. Instant Democracy: Rhetorical Crises and the Russian Federation, 1991–2007

Yeltsin and Putin in the President’s Office

Afterword

Index
Bibliography


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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Post-Soviet Russia in the 1990s saw a surge in civic participation. The traditional power structure officially relinquished control of political rhetoric and a nascent civil society had begun to emerge. Free elections and political partisanship between reformist and conservative elements of Russian society, spurred on by Russia’s economic troubles, gave a “Wild West” tenor to public rhetoric that was reflected in the election campaigns of 1993, 1995, and 1996. In this volume, the authors examine, through a series of contemporaneously written essays, the arc of government rhetoric during the height of media freedom, the quest for a new national identity, and the struggle for self-government.


      Table of Contents

      List of Photos
      Acknowledgements
      Contributors
      Note to Readers


      Alexander Yuriev
      Alexander Yuriev

      Dedication: Alexander Ivanovich Yuriev (1942–2020)
      Alexander Yuriev

      Preface

      Marilyn Young at a Political Communication Conference

      Introduction to Volume Two

      Yeltsin and Gorbachev

      Part One: Framework for Understanding the Immediate Post-Soviet Political Environment: Ecological Depredation, Economic Challenges, the Press, and National Identity

      Yeltsin Standing on a Tank 1991

      1. A New Day for the Soviet Environment

      2. The Former Soviet Union Leaves Environmental Legacy of Shame

      3. Review of Environmental Management in the Soviet Union by Philip R. Pryde

      4. Russian Scientists Struggle to Survive

      5. Review of The Russian Press from Brezhnev to Yeltsin: Behind the Paper Curtain by John Murray

      6. Argumentation, Globalization, and the New Nationalism: Implications and New Directions

      Part Two: Politics and Political Argumentation during the Yeltsin Years

      1. Democratization and Cultures of Communication: The Mission of the International Center for the Advancement of Political Communication and Argumentation

      2. The Role of Public Argument in Emerging Democracies: A Case Study of the December 12, 1993, Elections in the Russian Federation

      3. Analysis of Political Argumentation and Party Campaigning Prior to the 1993 and 1995 State Duma Elections: Lessons Learned and Not Learned

      4. Argument and Political Party Formulations: A Continuing Case Study of Democratization in the Russian Federation

      5. Russian Electoral Politics and the Search for National Identity

      Yeltsin Campaign Photograph

      Runoff Election Sample Ballot

      Choose or Lose: Campaign Button

      Choose or Lose: T-shirt Front

      Choose or Lose: T-shirt Back

      Choose or Lose: Globe and Barbed Wire

      Choose or Lose: Jeans Jacket and Prison Garb

      1. Frameworks for Russian Identity: Arguing the Past, Defining the Future

      2. Historical Metaphor and the Search for National Identity in Russia

      3. Russia’s First Elected President Buries Its Last Czar: Reclaiming Cultural Memory in the Search for National Identity

      Part Three: Yeltsin’s Multiple Political Profiles (The Three Faces of Boris)

      1. Yeltsin as an Autocrat: The “Constitutional Crisis of 1993” as the Beginning of the End of Russian Democracy

      Shelling of the White House

      Shelling of the White House

      Shelling of the White House

      1. Yeltsin as a Democrat: A Lexical Content Analysis of his Presidential Addresses to the Federal Assembly 1994–1999

      2. Yeltsin as a Man of the People: A Case Study of His Campaign Rhetoric during the 1996 Russian Presidential Election

      Yeltsin on the Campaign Trail

      Part Four: Looking Backward, Looking Forward

      1. Ten Years of Frustration: Transitional Rhetoric and Democratization in the Russian Federation

      2. The Fear of Politics and the Politics of Fear in Russia—Images in the US Media

      3. Echoes of Berlin 1989: Post-Soviet Discourse and the Rhetoric of National Unity

      4. Foreign Policy Challenges and The Historical “Anchors” of Russian Federation Foreign Policy after September 11, 2001

      Alexei Salmin

      1. Instant Democracy: Rhetorical Crises and the Russian Federation, 1991–2007

      Yeltsin and Putin in the President’s Office

      Afterword

      Index
      Bibliography


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