Russian Shorts Ser.: Russian Culture under Putin by Eliot Borenstein (2024, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherBloomsbury Academic & Professional
ISBN-10135039940X
ISBN-139781350399402
eBay Product ID (ePID)24064999240
Product Key Features
Number of Pages144 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameRussian Culture under Putin
Publication Year2024
SubjectWorld / Russian & Former Soviet Union, Russia & the Former Soviet Union
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaPolitical Science, History
AuthorEliot Borenstein
SeriesRussian Shorts Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.4 in
Item Weight9.6 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
Dewey Decimal306.0947
Table Of ContentPreface: Boiling the Frog 1. Sing a Song of Putin 2. Russia's Alien Nations 3. Where Does the Motherland Begin? 4. The Future of the Past 5. Inventing Ancient Russian Values 6. Beyond the Fringe 7. I Am Groot, or, How to Protest When Words Are Meaningless Index
SynopsisThis timely text charts the metamorphosis of Russian media and culture in the 21st century. It considers how, when Vladimir Putin came to power in 2000, Russia's media and culture industry had enjoyed nearly a decade of almost unrestricted freedom and yet, by the time he launched his illegal invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Russia's independent media was crushed, while the few viable opposition figures were either imprisoned, exiled, or dead under mysterious circumstances. Eliot Borenstein looks at the manufactured cult of Putin, the competing models of Russianness put forth in the media, the obsession with nostalgia and the limits on imagining the future, the rise of aggressive patriotism and the myth of ancient Russian 'traditional' values, the significance of the fight against 'gay propaganda', and the absurdist strategies used by the opposition in the face of increasing restrictions on free speech. Though the book's title invokes Putin, Russian Culture under Putin does not cast the Russian leader as an all-knowing genius pursuing a master plan. The culture of the past twenty years, both official and independent, has been largely improvisational. 21st-century Russia, as Borenstein demonstrates so masterfully, has not been frog-marched into unfreedom, but has in fact lurched back and forth on a dimly-lit path.
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