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873279
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Walker, Shaun, (Journalist)
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| Title & Author
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The long hangover : : Putin's new Russia and the ghosts of the past /\ Shaun Walker.
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| Publication Statement
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[New York, NY] :: Oxford University Press,, [2018]
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278 pages :: maps ;; 25 cm
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0190659246
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: 9780190659240
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9780190659257
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9780190659264
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-271) and index.
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| Contents
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A first-tier nation -- The sacred war -- Chechnya : the deal -- Kolyma : the end of the earth -- The Olympic dream -- Ukraine is not dead yet -- The Crimea gambit -- The Crimean Tatars -- Russian Crimea -- Donbass : the spiral -- War -- After the war.
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| Abstract
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"The Long Hangover is a new insight into contemporary Russia told through the country's troubled relationship with its Soviet past. The psychological burden of the Soviet collapse, and the attempts to marshal history in the service of a new national identity, help explain the newly resurgent Russia and the war in Ukraine."--
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In The Long Hangover, Shaun Walker provides a deeply reported, bottom-up explanation of Russia's resurgence under Putin. By cleverly exploiting the memory of the Soviet victory over fascism in World War II, Putin's regime has made ordinary Russians feel that their country is great again. Shaun Walker provides new insight into contemporary Russia and its search for a new identity, telling the story through the country's troubled relationship with its Soviet past. Walker not only explains Vladimir Putin's goals and the government's official manipulations of history, but also focuses on ordinary Russians and their motivations. He charts how Putin raised victory in World War II to the status of a national founding myth in the search for a unifying force to heal a divided country, and shows how dangerous the ramifications of this have been. The book explores why Russia, unlike Germany, has failed to come to terms with the darkest pages of its past: Stalin's purges, the Gulag, and the war deportations. The narrative roams from the corridors of the Kremlin to the wilds of the Gulags and the trenches of East Ukraine. It puts the annexation of Crimea and the newly assertive Russia in the context of the delayed fallout of the Soviet collapse. The Long Hangover is a book about a lost generation: the millions of Russians who lost their country and the subsequent attempts to restore to them a sense of purpose. Packed with analysis but told mainly through vibrant reportage, it is a thoughtful exploration of the legacy of the Soviet collapse and how it has affected life in Russia and Putin's policies.
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Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich,1952-
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Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich,1952-
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Politics and government.
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Russia (Federation), History.
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Russia (Federation), Politics and government, 1991-
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Russia (Federation), History.
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Russia (Federation)
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| Dewey Classification
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947.086
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| LC Classification
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DK510.763.W34 2018
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