Author: Graeme J. Gill
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107031397
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 255

View

Book Description
Asks why regime change in Russia has not been accompanied by a coherent new political symbolism.

Author: Graeme J. Gill
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781139840613
Category : POLITICAL SCIENCE
Languages : en
Pages : 255

View

Book Description
Asks why regime change in Russia has not been accompanied by a coherent new political symbolism.

Author: Graeme Gill
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 113985206X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 255

View

Book Description
During the Soviet period, political symbolism developed into a coherent narrative that underpinned Soviet political development. Following the collapse of the Soviet regime and its widespread rejection by the Russian people, a new form of narrative was needed, one which both explained the state of existing society and gave a sense of its direction. By examining the imagery contained in presidential addresses, the political system, the public sphere and the urban development of Moscow, Graeme Gill shows how no single coherent symbolic programme has emerged to replace that of the Soviet period. Laying particular emphasis on the Soviet legacy, and especially on the figure of Stalin, Symbolism and Regime Change in Russia explains why it has been so difficult to generate a new set of symbols which could constitute a coherent narrative for the new Russia.

Author: Graeme Gill
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139501224
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 363

View

Book Description
Symbols and Legitimacy in Soviet Politics analyses the way in which Soviet symbolism and ritual changed from the regime's birth in 1917 to its fall in 1991. Graeme Gill focuses on the symbolism in party policy and leaders' speeches, artwork and political posters, and urban redevelopment, and on ritual in the political system. He shows how this symbolism and ritual were worked into a dominant metanarrative which underpinned Soviet political development. Gill also shows how, in each of these spheres, the images changed both over the life of the regime and during particular stages: the Leninist era metanarrative differed from that of the Stalin period, which differed from that of the Khrushchev and Brezhnev periods, which was, in turn, changed significantly under Gorbachev. In charting this development, the book lays bare the dynamics of the Soviet regime and a major reason for its fall.

Author: Graeme Gill
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107130085
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 241

View

Book Description
Argues that post-Soviet Russia was never on a democratic trajectory because dominant elites always fostered the building of an authoritarian polity.

Author: Kadri Liik
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781906538811
Category : Democratization
Languages : en
Pages : 7

View

Book Description
"When EU leaders arrive in Yekaterinburg for the June 3rd/4th summit with their Russian counterparts, they are arriving in a new Russia. Europeans need to think again about how they deal with the changes that the country has undergone, and even how to deal with a post-Putin Russia. Although Vladimir Putin is back in the Kremlin, the era of "managed democracy"--Where the Kremlin manipulated politics with the consent of the ruled, backed by high oil prices--is over. Instead, Putin's third presidency is fragile, relying more upon coercion than co-option, and beset by economic problems. A new ECFR memo--"Regime change in Russia" by Kadri Liik--explains how the nature of Putin's power has changed, and lays out what this means for Europe as it works out how to deal with the new Russia: The most effective EU policies towards Russia will require more homework on energy security (diversifying supply routes, creating a common energy market) and anti-corruption initiatives. This would make EU members less vulnerable to Moscow divide-and-rule tactics -- As Russia shares many of the West's concerns about disorder in the Middle East, it may respond favourably to the offer of contributing to a realistic settlement over Syria and Iran. The EU should not bargain domestic carte blanche on issues like human rights and democracy in exchange for this cooperation -- As ever, Putin is ready to exploit European indecision and weakness, for instance on issues like the granting of visa-free travel. Europe must be strong, for instance by combining resources to ensure representation at political court cases such as the trial of opposition leader Alexei Navalny. "The third Putin presidency faces falling popularity and widespread dissatisfaction manifesting itself in a broad but fragmented opposition to the Kremlin, and without the safety blanket of strong oil prices. Europe will have to learn to deal with this new Russia, understanding how it has changed, while crafting more effective policies to deal with it."Kadri Liik"--Publisher's description.

Author: Graeme Gill
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000727939
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 200

View

Book Description
Symbolism and Politics is a timely intervention into ongoing debates around the function of political symbols in a historical period characterized by volatile electoral behaviour, fragmented societies in search of collective identifications, and increasingly polarized political models. Symbols are central features of organized human life, helping to define perception, shaping the way we view the world and understand what goes on within it. But, despite this key role in shaping understanding, there is never a single interpretation of a symbol that everyone within the community will accept, and the way in which symbols can mobilize antagonistic political factions demonstrates that they are as much a central element in power struggles as they are avenues to facilitate processes of identification. This dual potential is the object of discussion in the chapters of this book, which sheds new light on our understanding of the political function of symbols in a historical period. Symbolism and Politics will be of great interest to scholars working on Political Symbols, Nationalism, Regime Change and Political Transitions. The chapters originally published as a special issue of Politics, Religion & Ideology.

Author: Taylor & Francis Group
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781032086651
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 158

View

Book Description
Symbolism and Politics is a timely intervention into ongoing debates around the function of political symbols in a historical period characterized by volatile electoral behaviour, fragmented societies in search of collective identifications, and increasingly polarized political models. Symbols are central features of organized human life, helping to define perception, shaping the way we view the world and understand what goes on within it. But, despite this key role in shaping understanding, there is never a single interpretation of a symbol that everyone within the community will accept, and the way in which symbols can mobilize antagonistic political factions demonstrates that they are as much a central element in power struggles as they are avenues to facilitate processes of identification. This dual potential is the object of discussion in the chapters of this book, which sheds new light on our understanding of the political function of symbols in a historical period. Symbolism and Politics will be of great interest to scholars working on Political Symbols, Nationalism, Regime Change and Political Transitions. The chapters originally published as a special issue of Politics, Religion & Ideology.

Author: Agnieszka Mrozik
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351009265
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286

View

Book Description
Every political movement creates its own historical memory. The communist movement, though originally oriented towards the future, was no exception: The theory of human history constitutes a substantial part of Karl Marx’s and Friedrich Engels’s writings, and the movement inspired by them very soon developed its own strong historical identity, combining the Marxist theory of history with the movement’s victorious milestones such as the October Revolution and later the Great Patriotic War, which served as communist legitimization myths throughout almost the entire twentieth century. During the Stalinist period, however, the movement ́s history became strongly reinterpreted to suit Joseph Stalin’s political goals. After 1956, this reinterpretation lost most of its legitimating power and instead began to be a burden. The (unwanted) memory of Stalinism and subsequent examples of violence (the Gulag, Katyń, the 1956 Budapest uprising and the 1968 Prague Spring) contributed to the crisis of Eastern European state socialism in the late 1980s and led to attempts at reformulating or even rejecting communist self-identity. This book’s first section analyzes the post-1989 memory of communism and state socialism and the self-identity of the Eastern and Western European left. The second section examines the state-socialist and post-socialist memorial landscapes in the former German Democratic Republic, Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic, Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine and Russia. The final section concentrates on the narratives the movement established, when in power, about its own past, with the examples of the Soviet Union, Poland, Romania and Czechoslovakia.

Author: Roger E. Kanet
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137523670
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 316

View

Book Description
The central objective of this edited volume is to help unlock a set of intriguing puzzles relating to changing power dynamics in Eurasia, a region that is critically important in the changing international security landscape.