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

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Description	1 online resource (xi, 223 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
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.
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Subject	Russia (Federation) -- Politics and government -- 1991-
	Russia (Federation)
	Politics and government.
Chronological Term	1991-
Subject	Political culture -- Russia (Federation)
	Political culture.
	Post-communism -- Russia (Federation)
	Post-communism.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
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 book)
	1501717960 (electronic book)
	0801439639
	9780801439636
	0801486572
	9780801486579