Symbols and Legitimacy in Soviet Politics
The Life and Death of the USSR
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 24 March 2011
- ISBN 9781107004542
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages364 pages
- Size 229x152x21 mm
- Weight 660 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Analyses changes in Soviet political symbolism to explain a key dynamic behind the ultimate collapse of the Soviet system.
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Symbols and Legitimacy in Soviet Politics analyses the way in which Soviet symbolism and ritual changed from the regime's birth in 1917 to its fall in 1991. Graeme Gill focuses on the symbolism in party policy and leaders' speeches, artwork and political posters, and urban redevelopment, and on ritual in the political system. He shows how this symbolism and ritual were worked into a dominant metanarrative which underpinned Soviet political development. Gill also shows how, in each of these spheres, the images changed both over the life of the regime and during particular stages: the Leninist era metanarrative differed from that of the Stalin period, which differed from that of the Khrushchev and Brezhnev periods, which was, in turn, changed significantly under Gorbachev. In charting this development, the book lays bare the dynamics of the Soviet regime and a major reason for its fall.
'A fascinating and thoroughly-researched interpretation of Soviet history. Gill compellingly shows how the political language and symbols of the regime, which long helped to sustain it, ultimately left it defenceless to fresh thinking'. Archie Brown, author of The Rise and Fall of Communism
Table of Contents:
1. Ideology, metanarrative and myth; 2. Formation of the metanarrative, 1917-29; 3. The Stalinist culture, 1929-53; 4. An everyday vision, 1953-85; 5. The vision implodes, 1985-91; 6. Impact of the metanarrative.
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