This book explores the extent to which and the reasons why Russia’s citizens harbor feelings of nostalgia for the Soviet Union today. Based on the results of a nationwide survey and rigorous field research carried out within several of Russia’s regions, Dr. Sullivan uncovers material and cultural rationales for this sentiment of nostalgia – which poses both an opportunity and a challenge to the Russian government. With Russian nationalism and revanchism a resurgent force in contemporary global affairs, this detailed study will interest scholars of international relations and of populist authoritarianism around the world.
Author(s): Charles J. Sullivan
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 164
City: Singapore
Contents
List of Tables
1 Introduction
Outbreak
Post-Soviet
Feel Factors
Methodology
Overview
References
2 Yearning for the USSR
Regret, Restore, Return
References
3 Economic Bedlam
Motor City
Boom or Bust?
Soviet Social Services
Greed, Envy, Amnesia
References
4 Social Glue
The Soviet City on the Hill
Pride for the Past
Uncertainty and Instability
The Truth Tellers
References
5 Glory Days
The White Kremlin
The Soviet Peoples
Socialist Life
Feelings Among the Farmers
Eat the Rich
References
6 The Politics of the Past and Present
Back to the USSR?
Patriotic Upbringing
Lenin’s Seizure of Power
Collectivization and Industrialization
GULAG and Terror
The Great Patriotic War
Perestroika, Glasnost, the Soviet Collapse, and Yeltsin’s Reforms
References
7 Uncertainty in Future
Life Amidst the Ruins
The Past and the Future
References
Epilogue
References
Index
