Memory, Kinship, and the Mobilization of the Dead: The Russian State and the “Immortal Regiment” Movement

Fedor, Julie

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-66523-8_11

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“…The second picture exemplified a pro-government mobilisation, in this case one of the Immortal Regiment marches. These commemorative marches started as a grass-roots initiative and were subsequently co-opted by the Russian state (Fedor 2017).…”

Section: Protest As a Legitimate Form Of Political Participation?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Legitimate Political Demands? How Young Russians of Different Political Orientation Assess Protests

Krawatzek

2020

Youth Glob.

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Popular unrest is a source of worry also for seemingly stable authoritarian regimes. Young faces have become the image of protest in Russia over the last two years, and they convey the importance of protests that may emerge in any authoritarian regime. Nevertheless, it remains unclear what kind of young people are taking to the street and how their mobilisation is judged by their peers. This paper draws on survey data from 2018 and 2019 on the political attitudes of young Russians alongside focus group interviews generated in 2019 in Yekaterinburg and St. Petersburg. The combination of these two sources allows us to explore the shifting assessments of political and environmental protests and young people’s participation therein. It is argued that young Russians of different political orientation agree that Putin has been in power for too long and that also regime supporters do not, in principle, oppose regime critical protests. Rather, supporters insist on the importance for protests to be officially approved but question the genuine political nature of oppositional mobilisation. Friendship networks and institutional trust emerge as the key variables for understanding assessment of protests.

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Section: Protest As a Legitimate Form Of Political Participation?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Legitimate Political Demands? How Young Russians of Different Political Orientation Assess Protests

Krawatzek

2020

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“…Not only it was reformulated with a more nationalistic rhetoric and used as a conceptual framework to explain and interpret the crisis in Ukraine (Siddi 2017), but also became increasingly used for propagating the state-sponsored ideas of the Russian World (Gaufman 2017). The latter approach was exemplified in the Immortal Regiment movement that started as a grassroots campaign in 2012, but in the later years was monopolized by the state and turned into a means of Russian soft power (Fedor 2017).…”

Section: Victory Day As Part Of a Changing Memory Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%

Past Is Another Resource: Remembering the 70th Anniversary of the Victory Day on LiveJournal

Makhortykh

Lyebyedyev²,

Kravtsov³

2020

Nationalities Papers

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In our article we examine changes experienced by media and memory systems in Russia since the beginning of the Ukraine crisis. Using as an example a popular Russian blogging platform, LiveJournal, we scrutinize how the digital practices related to commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany are influenced by the growing instrumentalization of Second World War memory for media propaganda and manipulation. Using topic modeling to analyze a large set of data on Russian users’ interactions with the platform, we examine how hegemonic and alternative interpretations of the Second World War interact on LiveJournal and how their interactions are influenced by the growing antagonism between Russia and the West. Our findings suggest that LiveJournal constitutes a fractured memory system, which is characterized by uneven representation of Second World War experiences and the growing influence of pro-government actors promoting hegemonic war narratives. However, our observations also show that instrumentalization of the past in the context of the Ukraine crisis does not necessarily interfere with digital practices of Second World War commemoration with the latter remaining unaffected by the events in Ukraine.

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“…What was particularly emphasized is the role of the Soviet (and then Russian) people, who was often represented by a generalized figure of the Red Army soldier as a liberator from the universal evil of Nazism. In fact, this Victory Day cult was always a glorifying act of military bravery rather than an act of mourning about millions of victims, including those who lost their lives due to Stalin's repressive policies (Fedor 2017;Petrov 2015). The state's reluctance to take the full responsibility for terror against its own people or, in the words of Alexander Etkind, the 'warped mourning of the undead in the land of the unburied' (Etkind 2013), suppressed necropolitics as an expression of mourning and grief for dead compatriots.…”

Section: Poland: Memory Politics Based On Martyrological Messianismmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In (Fedor 2017, 323)). Since 2015, when the state-supported clone of the original 'Immortal Regiment' was registered, the grass-roots initiative was appropriated by the state (Fedor 2017;Gabowitsch 2016, 307-309;Arkhipova 2018). In the words of the pro-Kremlin writer Roman Nosikov, the blood of the Soviet soldiers leaked on the WWII battlefields, and became a 'seed' for the conception of the Russian nation (qtd.…”

Section: Poland: Memory Politics Based On Martyrological Messianismmentioning

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Biopolitical conservatism in Europe and beyond: the cases of identity-making projects in Poland and Russia

Yatsyk

2019

Journal of Contemporary European Studies

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In this article, I compare Polish and Russian national identity projects as they are being developed by the Kremlin and the ruling PiS (Law and Justice) party after 2012 and 2015, correspondingly. I raise a question about nodal points of Poland's and Russia's collective identities and their institutional references as 'illiberal democracies' to the European normative order. I argue, that despite the existing differences between the two national projects, they are similar in opposing themselves to the EU liberal paradigm and emphasizing the traditional and religious values as the key principles in family planning, gender and sexual issues, migrants and workforce policy. In other words, I understand both national projects as illiberal biopolitical conservatisms, which imply concepts of separation and defence from the 'liberal West' in their discursive core.

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Memory, Kinship, and the Mobilization of the Dead: The Russian State and the “Immortal Regiment” Movement

Cited by 45 publications

References 15 publications

Legitimate Political Demands? How Young Russians of Different Political Orientation Assess Protests

Legitimate Political Demands? How Young Russians of Different Political Orientation Assess Protests

Past Is Another Resource: Remembering the 70th Anniversary of the Victory Day on LiveJournal

Biopolitical conservatism in Europe and beyond: the cases of identity-making projects in Poland and Russia

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