Political Symbols and Regime Change
The Russian Experience
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13040168 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Graeme Gill (0000-0001-8826-0971, The University of Sydney, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 494-509 |
| Publication date | 2018-10-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Politics Religion & Ideology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2156-7697 • E-ISSN: 2156-7689 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/21567689.2018.1537615 |
| OpenAlex | W2904388093 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
The collapse of communism in the Soviet Union in 1991created a dilemma for the post-communist authorities of what they were to do about Soviet symbolic discourse. This was central to the task of regime legitimation. The post-Soviet regime sought to eliminate the multivocalism of symbols by encapsulating them in a new cultural-historical narrative. This involved a coming to grips with the Soviet period, and has been immensely complicated by the nature of memory in post-Soviet Russia. The result is the continuing ambiguity, and multivocalism, of symbols in contemporary Russia. This experience is a common one for new regimes of all types, but especially those that come to power as a result of revolution
Aesthetics · Ambiguity · Art · Communism · Communist state · Dilemma · Epistemology · Legitimation · Linguistics · Literature · Narrative · Period (music · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · Soviet union · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · History · Law · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.75 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |