The Long hangover : Putin's new Russia and the ghosts of the past / Shaun Walker

By:

Walker, Shaun

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2018Description: vii, 278p. ; 24cmISBN:

9780190931537

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DDC classification:

947.086 WAL 22

Summary: In this book, the author provides new insight into contemporary Russia and its search for a new identity, telling the story through the country's troubled relationship with its Soviet past. He not only explains Vladimir Putin's goals and the government's official manipulations of history, but also focuses on ordinary Russians and their motivations. He charts how Putin raised victory in World War II to the status of a national founding myth in the search for a unifying force to heal a divided country, and shows how dangerous the ramifications of this have been. The book explores why Russia, unlike Germany, has failed to come to terms with the darkest pages of its past: Stalin's purges, the Gulag, and the war deportations.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
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In this book, the author provides new insight into contemporary Russia and its search for a new identity, telling the story through the country's troubled relationship with its Soviet past. He not only explains Vladimir Putin's goals and the government's official manipulations of history, but also focuses on ordinary Russians and their motivations. He charts how Putin raised victory in World War II to the status of a national founding myth in the search for a unifying force to heal a divided country, and shows how dangerous the ramifications of this have been. The book explores why Russia, unlike Germany, has failed to come to terms with the darkest pages of its past: Stalin's purges, the Gulag, and the war deportations.

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