Memory Politics and the Russian Civil War: Reds Versus Whites (Russian Shorts) - Softcover

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Marlene Laruelle; Margarita Karnysheva

 
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Synopsis

In examining the re-emergence of Russia's pro-Tsarist White Movement, Rediscovering Russias White Movement gets to the heart of the rich 20th-century memory debates going on in Putins Russia today. The Kremlin has been giving preference to a Soviet-lite nostalgia that denounces the 1917 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 pro-Tsarist White movement defeated in the 1920s. Marlene Laruelle and Margarita Karnysheva strongly argue that the latter has found traction as it benefits from some nostalgia for pre-revolutionary Russia and a fascination with the cultural and intellectual legacy of the interwar emigration. This book offers the first comprehensive exploration of this White Revenge, looking at the different actors who promote a White movement 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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About the Authors

Marlene Laruelle is Professor at the Luiss Guido Carli University in Rome, Italy. 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 scholar who obtained her PhD in History from the University of Kansas, USA.

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ISBN 10:  1350149969 ISBN 13:  9781350149960
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020
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