Identity under Siege: Selective Securitization of History in Putin's Russia

Bækken, Håvard; Enstad, Johannes Due

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“…Den beskrives som utsatt for forsøk på forfalskning fra fiendtlige aktører, og et angrep på det offisielle russiske historiske narrativet beskrives som et angrep på selve staten (Kreml, 2023;jf. også Baekken, 2017;Baekken & Enstad, 2020;McGlynn, 2020). Ifølge Julie Fedor kan den voksende oppslutningen om patriotisk minnekultur i dagens Russland forstås nettopp i lys av slike krigsminnebaserte trusselbilder:…”

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Minnediplomati i grenseland. De russisk-norske patriotiske minneturene 2011–2019

Myklebost

2023

Nordisk Østforum

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This article traces the development and narrative staging in Russian media of the so-called Russian-Norwegian patriotic memory tours that took place from 2011 to 2019 to celebrate a heroic story of WWII Red Army soldiers and Norwegian partisans in Soviet intelligence service. The article concludes that the tours were initiated by Russian state and state-affiliated actors who exported military-patriotic symbols and perspectives across the border to Norway, and actively promoted several intertwined narratives; about joint Russian-Norwegian heroic war history; about historically peaceful relations in the North between Norway and Russia; and about Norway as a friendly Nato-member neighbor that rightfully honors the memory of the Soviet army and its crucial role in the victory over Nazi Germany. After Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014, these narratives were supplemented by Russian claims about a contemporary fascist threat spreading from Ukraine and the Baltics. The statements emphasized the acute importance of the patriotic memory tours to resist allegedly growing neo-fascism in today’s Europe. The article argues that the narrative staging of the tours must be read in the context of the Kremlin’s ongoing memory wars with former Soviet republics and Eastern bloc states and Russia’s military aggression in Ukraine since 2014.

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Minnediplomati i grenseland. De russisk-norske patriotiske minneturene 2011–2019

Myklebost

2023

Nordisk Østforum

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“…Rhetorically, it manifests in statements by political leaders about their responsibility to maintain civic unity in the context of the country's ethnic diversity. Under Putin's rule, maintaining this unity has progressively meant increased control by law enforcement agencies over nationality issues (Edwin et al 2006;Baekken and Enstad 2020). Instrumentally, the policy embraces educational, language and cultural policy measures explicitly for "preservation of diversity" (Strategy for State Ethnic Policy 2014) -measures undertaken by federal and regional ministries and departments.…”

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Russia’s nationalities policy and the country’s Central Asian residents’ identity-based activities

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Slinko

2022

Dialect Anthropol

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As applied to the Russian case, identity politics means first and foremost a state strategy that regulates the public expressions of ethnicity-based solidarity in a way that prevents them from being motivated by a sense of injustice. With regard to Russia’s Central Asian residents, injustice lies in tacit racist treatment by officials, police officers, employers and landlords. The peculiarity of officially recognised Central Asian organisations operating on the basis of state nationalities policy institutions is that they contribute to maintaining the status quo. They do so through orchestrating cultural activities that reproduce stereotypical images of harmonious ethnic diversity in Russia, as well as by supervising labour migrants. However, there are members in these organisations who do manage to use the resources of Russia’s rather idiosyncratic nationalities policy to fulfil their own aspirations, i.e. to practice identity politics for which the policy is not intended.

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“…The latter aspectsettling accounts with the communist times 5 See Ozbay & Aras, 2008;Sherlock, 2011;Stolarczyk, 2016;Radziwon, 2018;Baekken & Enstad, 2020. 6 See Paul, 2010Langford, 2012;Fredheim, 2014;Urban, 2020;Słowiński, 2021c.…”

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The Polish-Russian ‘monument war’ in the context of the Law and Justice’s historical policy

SŁOWIŃSKI

2023

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The article addresses the issue of the influence of historical conditions on Polish-Russian relations on the threshold of the 21st century. After the collapse of the communist system in Poland in 1989, the new political elites, guiding the process of democratic transition in the Third Republic of Poland, made efforts to settle the disputed threads of common Polish-Russian history. One of the sources of conflict in terms of the historical burdens was case the removal by Poland of monuments to Red Army soldiers who died on Polish soil. This problem has become an important antagonistic element in bilateral relations, leading to the outbreak of a Polish-Russian 'monument war'. To a large extend, the disputes over Soviet monuments dominated discussions in the Polish-Russian relations, creating another field of conflict on the historical level.

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Identity under Siege: Selective Securitization of History in Putin's Russia

Cited by 13 publications

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Minnediplomati i grenseland. De russisk-norske patriotiske minneturene 2011–2019

Minnediplomati i grenseland. De russisk-norske patriotiske minneturene 2011–2019

Russia’s nationalities policy and the country’s Central Asian residents’ identity-based activities

The Polish-Russian ‘monument war’ in the context of the Law and Justice’s historical policy

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