Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Taking Back Control of History
  • Memory politics in Russia
  • route to the past
  • Which history?
  • Why history?
  • Book outline
  • 2. Kremlins Memory Policies
  • Positive reinforcement of historical narratives
  • war on history
  • Media censorship
  • 3. Past as Present: The Historical Framing of Ukraine, Sanctions and Syria
  • Ukraine Crisis as the Great Patriotic War
  • Western imposition of sanctions as the (re)destruction of the USSR
  • Russian intervention in Syria as a regaining of Soviet superpower status
  • 4. Amplifying the Call to History
  • Memory wars and the war against historical falsification
  • Russophobia
  • Foreign agents
  • Elites vs narod
  • Heroism
  • Messianism
  • Memory diplomacy
  • 5. Living Forms of Patriotism
  • Ministry of Culture and Vladimir Medinskii
  • Russian Military Historical Society
  • Entertainment not education
  • Securing the past for the future
  • Taking over non-government movements: the Immortal Regiment
  • 6. Attaining Cultural Consciousness
  • What is cultural consciousness?
  • Templates of cultural consciousness
  • From the vanguard of class to cultural consciousness
  • Beyond post-truth: history as allegorical truth
  • 7. Endlessness of History
  • Where next for Russian history?
  • future of cultural consciousness.