Print version: Cultural and political imaginaries in Putin’s Russia. First edition. Leiden, The Netherlands : Brill, c2019 xii, 262 pages Eurasian studies library ; Volume 11. ISBN 9789004366664
/ Notes on Contributors vii // Introduction: Cultural and Political Imaginaries in Putin’s Russia i // Niklas Bemsand and Barbara Tömquist-Plewa // PART 1 // Cultural Policy and Ideological Movements // 1 Russia: Culture, Cultural Policy, and the Swinging Pendulum of Politics 13 // Lena Jonson // 2 ‘Middle Continent’ or ‘Island Russia’: Eurasianist Legacy and Vadim Tsymburskii’s Revisionist Geopolitics 37 // Igor Torbakov // 3 Eduard Limonov’s National Bolshevik Party and the Nazi Legacy: Titular Nations vs Ethnic Minorities 63 // Andrei Rogatchevski // PART 2 // Memory Politics // 4 Constructing the “Usable Past”: the Evolution of the Official Historical Narrative in Post-Soviet Russia 85 // Olga Malinova // 5 Dying in the Soviet Gulag for the Future Glory of Mother Russia? Making “Patriotic” Sense of the Gulag in Present-Day Russia 105 // Tomas Sniegon // 6 Memory Watchdogs. Online and Offline Mobilizations around Controversial Historical Issues in Russia 141 // Elena Perrier (Morenkova) // PART 2 // Popular Culture audits Embeddedness in Politics // 7 "Your Stork Might Disappear Forever!”: Russian Public Awareness Advertising and Incentivizing Motherhood 177 // Elena Rakhimova-Sommers // 8 Fashionable Irony and Stiob: the Use of Soviet Heritage in Russian Fashion Design and Soviet Subcultures 192 // Ekaterina Kalinina // 9 Humour as a Mode of Hegemonic Control: Comic Representations of Belarusian and Ukrainian Leaders in Official Russian Media 211 // Alena Minchenia, Barbara Tömquist-Plewa and Yuliya Yurchuk // 10 The Cosmic Subject in Post-Soviet Russia: Noocosmology, Space-Oriented Spiritualism, and the Problem of the Securitization of the Soul 232 // Natalija Majsova // Index 259