Symbols and Legitimacy in Soviet Politics

2011-03-24 Political Science

Author : Graeme Gill
Release : 2011-03-24
Genre : Political Science
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Download or read book Symbols and Legitimacy in Soviet Politics written by Graeme Gill. This book was released on 2011-03-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Symbols and Legitimacy in Soviet Politics

2014-05-14 Legitimacy of governments

Author : Graeme J. Gill
Release : 2014-05-14
Genre : Legitimacy of governments
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Download or read book Symbols and Legitimacy in Soviet Politics written by Graeme J. Gill. This book was released on 2014-05-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyses changes in Soviet political symbolism to explain a key dynamic behind the ultimate collapse of the Soviet system.

Symbolism and Regime Change in Russia

2013-01-17 Political Science

Author : Graeme Gill
Release : 2013-01-17
Genre : Political Science
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Download or read book Symbolism and Regime Change in Russia written by Graeme Gill. This book was released on 2013-01-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Soviet period, political symbolism developed into a coherent narrative that underpinned Soviet political development. Following the collapse of the Soviet regime and its widespread rejection by the Russian people, a new form of narrative was needed, one which both explained the state of existing society and gave a sense of its direction. By examining the imagery contained in presidential addresses, the political system, the public sphere and the urban development of Moscow, Graeme Gill shows how no single coherent symbolic programme has emerged to replace that of the Soviet period. Laying particular emphasis on the Soviet legacy, and especially on the figure of Stalin, Symbolism and Regime Change in Russia explains why it has been so difficult to generate a new set of symbols which could constitute a coherent narrative for the new Russia.

Building an Authoritarian Polity

2015-11-12 Political Science

Author : Graeme Gill
Release : 2015-11-12
Genre : Political Science
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Download or read book Building an Authoritarian Polity written by Graeme Gill. This book was released on 2015-11-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Graeme Gill shows why post-Soviet Russia has failed to achieve the democratic outcome widely expected at the time of the fall of the Soviet Union, instead emerging as an authoritarian polity. He argues that the decisions of dominant elites have been central to the construction of an authoritarian polity, and explains how this occurred in four areas of regime-building: the relationship with the populace, the manipulation of the electoral system, the internal structure of the regime itself, and the way the political elite has been stabilised. Instead of the common 'Yeltsin is a democrat, Putin an autocrat' paradigm, this book shows how Putin built upon the foundations that Yeltsin had laid. It offers a new framework for the study of an authoritarian political system, and is therefore relevant not just to Russia but to many other authoritarian polities.

Symbols of Power

1987 History

Author : Claes Arvidsson
Release : 1987
Genre : History
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