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Chuck Darwin Mar 26, 2024

Two decades before the war against Ukraine, a “special operation” was launched against #Russian #historical #memory,
aggressively reshaping the nation’s understanding of its history and identity.

The Kremlin’s #militarization of Russia through World War II propaganda is well documented, but the #glorification of Russian #medieval society and its #warlords as a source of support for Putinism has yet to be explored.
This book offers the first comparison of Putin’s political #neomedievalism and re-#Stalinization and introduces the concept of #mobmemory to the study of right-wing populism.

https://www.routledge.com/Putins-Dark-Ages-Political-Neomedievalism-and-Re-Stalinization-in-Russia/Khapaeva/p/book/9781032571485

Putin’s Dark Ages: Political Neomedievalism and Re-Stalinization in Russia

Two decades before the war against Ukraine, a “special operation” was launched against Russian historical memory, aggressively reshaping the nation’s understanding of its history and identity. The Kremlin’s militarization of Russia through World War II propaganda is well documented, but the glorification of Russian medieval society and its warlords as a source of support for Putinism has yet to be explored. This book offers the first comparison of Putin’s political neomedieva

Routledge & CRC Press

jackhutton 🇺🇸Mar 18, 2024

Apollinary Vasnetsov’s 1911 painting “The street in the town”: people fleeing at the arrival of the Oprichniki (inspired by the opera The Oprichnik by Tchaikovsky)

Massacre of Novgorod
Location: Novgorod, Russia
Date: 2 January – 12 February 1570
Attack type: Massacre
Deaths: 2,000–15,000
Perpetrators: Ivan the Terrible and the oprichniki

#Russia #oprichnina #ivanTheTerrible #putin #putinism #neomedievalism #novgorod