Memory Politics and the Russian Civil War Reds Versus Whites
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Marlene Laruelle is Associate Director and Research Professor at the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES) at The George Washington University, USA. She is the author of several books, including Russian Eurasianism: An Ideology of Empire (2008), In the Name of the Nation: Nationalism and Politics in Contemporary Russia (2009), and Understanding Russia: The Challenges of Transformation (2018).
Margarita Karnysheva is an independent researcher from Russia working on the Russian Civil War, Soviet military history, and contemporary Russia’s politics of memory. She received her PhD in history of Japan and Soviet military history from the University of Kansas, USA.
Engaging with cutting-edge social theory and illustrating [the book's] arguments with examples from Hungary and Lithuania.
The Russian Review
<i>Memory Politics</i> succeeds in being both accessible and authoritative: it can be read with interest by specialists and by advanced undergraduates. It traces the political debates during the Soviet, Yeltsin, and Putin eras around the legacy of the “Whites,” who defended Tsarism during the Russian Civil War (1918–21).
CHOICE
The book is very compact and provides a lively and informative overview of memory politics in contemporary Russia, focusing mostly on the period between the late 1980s and 2017.
Canadian Slavonic Papers
What an enlightening and compelling book! <i>Memory Politics and the Russian Civil War</i> proffers a compelling and uniquely rich tapestry of politicized memory that WEAVES together past and present, secular and religious, left and right, in a mix of vibrant narratives that continue to inform the ideological struggle for the “Russian soul” driving the Russian body politic under Putin.
Nina Tumarkin, Kathryn Wasserman Davis Professor of Slavic Studies, Harvard University, USA
Powerful, rich and timely book exploring the collective memory (and political uses and abuses thereof) of one of the most conflicted pages in Russian history – Russian civil war. Laruelle and Karnysheva give us one more key to understanding contemporary Russian identity through the lens of Russia's uneasy relations with its own past.
Elena Morenkova Perrier, Independent Scholar, France
Laruelle and Karnysheva’s study of the reception of the White movement in Russia today is a timely and important contribution on post-Soviet memory politics. In exploring inter-connected and sometimes competing varieties of ‘memory activism’ amongst both state and non-state actors, the authors highlight significant debates concerning conservatism, nationalism and Russian identity.
George Gilbert, Lecturer in Modern Russian History, University of Southampton, UK
This book is much broader than the title suggests. Through the prism of debates over the rehabilitation of major figures once vilified by the Soviet regime, it provides a handy guide and introduction to the knotty problem of defining Russian patriotism today. Compact and lively, it will be of interest to anyone interested in contemporary Russia and will make an excellent text for the classroom.
Eric Lohr, Professor and Carmel Chair of Russian History and Culture History, American University, USA
Despite its modest size this book is remarkably detailed, replete with extensive citations from a variety of rich literary and publicist sources. It presents a compact yet insightful picture of the role of political memory in shaping and reshaping the narrative of the 1918–1921 Red versus White Civil War in Russia.
Slavic Review
In examining the re-emergence of Russia's White Movement, Memory Politics and the Russian Civil War gets to the heart of the rich 20th-century memory debates going on in Putin’s Russia today.
The Kremlin has been giving preference to a Soviet-lite nostalgia that denounces the 1917 Bolshevik revolution but celebrates the birth of a powerful Soviet Union able to bring the country to the forefront of the international scene after the victory in World War II. Yet in parallel, another historical narrative has gradually consolidated on the Russian public scene, one that favours the opposite camp, namely the White movement and the pro-tsarist groups defeated in the early 1920s. This book offers the first comprehensive exploration of this ‘White Revenge’, looking at the different actors who promote a White and pro-Romanov rehabilitation agenda in the political, ideological and cultural arenas and what this historical agenda might mean for Russia, both today and tomorrow.
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Introduction
1. White Historical Romanticism in Soviet Culture and Politics
2. Rehabilitation: Judicial, Cultural, Symbolic?
3. The Church’s Conquest of the Memory Market
4. White Thinkers: What Room in the Regime’s Ideology?
5. Cultural Reverberations of the White Past
Conclusion
Index
Russian Shorts is a series of thought-provoking books published in a slim, beautifully designed format. The Shorts books provide concise examinations of key concepts, personalities, and moments in Russian historical and cultural studies, encompassing its vast diversity from the origins of the Kievan state to Putin's Russia. Each book is written in a nontechnical manner, covers a side of Russian history and culture that has not been well-understood, and is meant to stimulate debate. All books are peer-reviewed and meet the highest standards of scholarship.
Series Editors:
Polly Jones, Professor of Russian at University College, Oxford, UK
Stephen M. Norris, Walter E. Havighurst Professor of Russian History and Director of the Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies, Miami University (OH), USA
Editorial Board:
Edyta Bojanowska, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Yale University, USA
Ekaterina Boltunova, Associate Professor of History, Higher School of Economics, Russia
Eliot Borenstein, Professor of Russian and Slavic, New York University, USA
Melissa Caldwell, Professor of Anthropology, University of California Santa Cruz, USA
Choi Chatterjee, Professor of History, California State University, Los Angeles, USA
Robert Crews, Professor of History, Stanford University, USA
Dan Healey, Professor of Modern Russian History, University of Oxford, UK
Paul R. Josephson, Professor of History, Colby College, USA
Marlene Laruelle, Research Professor of International Affairs, George Washington University, USA
Marina Mogilner, Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Willard Sunderland, Henry R. Winkler Professor of Modern History, University of Cincinnati, USA
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Marlene Laruelle is Associate Director and Research Professor at the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES) at The George Washington University, USA. She is the author of several books, including Russian Eurasianism: An Ideology of Empire (2008), In the Name of the Nation: Nationalism and Politics in Contemporary Russia (2009), and Understanding Russia: The Challenges of Transformation (2018).
Margarita Karnysheva is an independent researcher from Russia working on the Russian Civil War, Soviet military history, and contemporary Russia’s politics of memory. She received her PhD in history of Japan and Soviet military history from the University of Kansas, USA.