Cultural and Political Imaginaries in Putin’s Russia

Niklas Bernsand, researcher, Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University. His main research interests concern memory, cultural diversity and language in Ukraine.Barbara Törnquist-Plewa, Ph. D. (1992), Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University. She has published extensively on nationalism, identity and collective memories, including The Twentieth Century in European Memory (Brill 2017), and Whose Memory? Which Future? Remembering Ethnic Cleansing And Lost Cultural Diversity in Eastern, Central and Southeastern Europe (Berghahn 2016).

• ContentsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Cultural and Political Imaginaries in Putin’s RussiaNiklas Bernsand and Barbara Törnquist-PlewaPart 1: Cultural Policy and Ideological Movements1 Russia: Culture, Cultural Policy, and the Swinging Pendulum of PoliticsLena Jonson2 ‘Middle Continent’ or ‘Island Russia’: Eurasianist Legacy and Vadim Tsymburskii’s Revisionist GeopoliticsIgor Torbakov3 Eduard Limonov’s National Bolshevik Party and the Nazi Legacy: Titular Nations vs Ethnic MinoritiesAndrei RogatchevskiPart 2: Memory Politics4 Constructing the “Usable Past”: the Evolution of the Official Historical Narrative in Post-Soviet RussiaOlga Malinova5 Dying in the Soviet Gulag for the Future Glory of Mother Russia? Making “Patriotic” Sense of the Gulag in Present-Day RussiaTomas Sniegon6 Memory Watchdogs. Online and Offline Mobilizations around Controversial Historical Issues in RussiaElena Perrier (Morenkova) Part 3: Popular Culture and Its Embeddedness in Politics7 “Your Stork Might Disappear Forever!”: Russian Public Awareness Advertising and Incentivizing MotherhoodElena Rakhimova-Sommers8 Fashionable Irony and Stiob: the Use of Soviet Heritage in Russian Fashion Design and Soviet SubculturesEkaterina Kalinina9 Humour as a Mode of Hegemonic Control: Comic Representations of Belarusian and Ukrainian Leaders in Official Russian MediaAlena Minchenia, Barbara Törnquist-Plewa and Yuliya Yurchuk10 The Cosmic Subject in Post-Soviet Russia: Noocosmology, Space-Oriented Spiritualism, and the Problem of the Securitization of the SoulNatalija MajsovaIndex