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

Author:   Dina Khapaeva (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781032571461


Pages:   276
Publication Date:   26 October 2023
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Author:   Dina Khapaeva (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   1.170kg
ISBN:  

9781032571461


ISBN 10:   1032571462
Pages:   276
Publication Date:   26 October 2023
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1. Political Neomedievalism, the Memory of the Perpetrators, and Mobmemory 2. Putin’s Neomedieval Politics of History 3. Post-Soviet Historians and Religious Activists on the Medieval Oprichnina 4. The Post-Soviet Far Right on Establishing the New Oprichnina 5. The Oprichnina and Serfdom in Popular Culture and Public Debates 6. Re-Stalinization in Putin’s Russia 7. Working through the Past Russian-Style: Mobmemory in Vladimir Sharov’s Prose. Conclusion: The Politics of Reversed Time – Apocalypse as Practice

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"""In Putin's Dark Ages, Dina Khapaeva offers an original interpretation of the Russian president and his apocalyptic, reactionary worldview, arguing that it is not just neo-Stalinist, but neo-medievalist: clearly written, deeply researched and thought provoking."" Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic staff writer ""In this fascinating and innovative work, Dina Khapaeva offers a new perspective on the Putin regime as part of a wider cultural phenomenon, that of neomedievalism in the totalitarian political imagination. This book is a must for those seeking to understand Putin’s war on Ukraine and his politics of memory."" Serhy Yekelchyk, University of Victoria, Canada ""An illuminating inquiry, a necessary book to understand the nature of Putinism - combining Restalinization with a multifaceted Neomedievalism. A severe dissection of a terrorist regime."" François Hartog, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, France ""Putin’s Dark Ages is a strikingly timely intervention in the study of Russian history, memory, and politics. Before February 24, 2022, it was still possible to argue that the phenomena covered in this book—neo-medievalism, neo-Eurasianism, the celebration of Ivan the Terrible and Joseph Stalin, etc.—were curious, but marginal developments. As Khapaeva compellingly shows, they are in fact crucial and central features of Russian society today—symptoms of a distinctive anti-modern worldview that has gained an extraordinary and inimical potency."" Kevin M.F. Platt, University of Pennsylvania, USA"


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Dina Khapaeva is Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, USA. Among her latest books are Crimes sans châtiment (2023) and The Celebration of Death in Contemporary Culture (2017). Until 2009, she was Director for Research at Smolny College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and a professor at St. Petersburg State University, Russia.

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