The Patriotic Turn and Re-Building Russia’s Historical Memory: Resisting the West, Leading the Post-Soviet East?
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In 2017, the draft of the law on patriotic education was submitted to the State Duma. The document clearly signaled that Russian authorities were starting to prepare for long-term resistance to external threats, both military and cultural. This development follows the adoption of five decrees with a similar focus. Exploring this “patriotic turn,” our research will focus on how power shapes collective memory and how the Russian patriotic campaign is perceived elsewhere in the post-Soviet space, namely in Kazakhstan. In this way, Kratochvíl and Shakhanova are shedding a new light on the nexus between historical memory, anti-Western resistance, and the foreign policy.
Read the first article in a series of academic publications written jointly by Petr Kratochvíl and Gaziza Shakhanova for a prestigious scholarly Journal with the impact factor of 1.636 on the following link.