Title Mythmaking in the new Russia : politics and memory during the Yeltsin era / Kathleen E. Smith.

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Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2002.

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Description	1 online resource (xi, 223 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-218) and index.
Contents	Memory and postcommunist politics -- Rewriting Communist Party history in the constitutional court -- Remembering August 1991 : founding moment or farce? -- Disposing of the spoils of World War II -- Recasting the commemorative calendar -- Remaking the capital's landscape -- Campaigning on the past in the 1996 presidential race -- Searching for a new Russian idea -- Patriotic divisions.
Summary	Kathleen E. Smith examines the use of collective memories in Russian politics during the Yeltsin years, surveying the various issues that became battlegrounds for contending notions of what it means to be Russian.
Note	Print version record.
Subject	Russia (Federation) -- Politics and government -- 1991-
	Political culture -- Russia (Federation)
	Post-communism -- Russia (Federation)
	Political culture. (OCoLC)fst01069263
	Politics and government. (OCoLC)fst01919741
	Post-communism. (OCoLC)fst01072730
	Russia (Federation) (OCoLC)fst01262050
	Collectief geheugen.
	Symbolen.
	Nationale identiteit.
	Politische Kultur.
	Russland.
	Russland.
	HISTORY / Europe / Eastern.
	HISTORY / Europe / Former Soviet Republics.
	HISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
	POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Nationalism & Patriotism.
Other Form:	Print version: Smith, Kathleen E. Mythmaking in the new Russia. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2002 0801439639 (DLC) 2001006052 (OCoLC)48098353
ISBN	9781501717963 (electronic bk.)
	1501717960 (electronic bk.)

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