Political Symbols and Regime Change: The Russian Experience
The collapse of communism in the Soviet Union in 1991created a dilemma for the post-communist authorities of what they were to do about Soviet symbolic discourse. This was central to the task of regime legitimation. The post-Soviet regime sought to eliminate the multivocalism of symbols by encapsula...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
2018
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Politics, religion & ideology
Year: 2018, Volume: 19, Issue: 4, Pages: 494-509 |
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| Summary: | The collapse of communism in the Soviet Union in 1991created a dilemma for the post-communist authorities of what they were to do about Soviet symbolic discourse. This was central to the task of regime legitimation. The post-Soviet regime sought to eliminate the multivocalism of symbols by encapsulating them in a new cultural-historical narrative. This involved a coming to grips with the Soviet period, and has been immensely complicated by the nature of memory in post-Soviet Russia. The result is the continuing ambiguity, and multivocalism, of symbols in contemporary Russia. This experience is a common one for new regimes of all types, but especially those that come to power as a result of revolution. |
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| ISSN: | 2156-7697 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Politics, religion & ideology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/21567689.2018.1537615 |