Memory Politics and the Russian Civil War: Reds Versus Whites

by Marlène Laruelle and Margarita Karnysheva

Book Overview

In examining the re-emergence of Russia's pro-Tsarist White Movement, Rediscovering Russia's White Movement gets to the heart of the rich 20th-century memory debates going on in Putin's 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350149950
• ISBN13: 9781350149953
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 7.7"