A Socio-Political Model of Lies in Russia

Jason C. Vaughn

doi:10.5771/9780761867647

Summary

This book is written to examine Russian public opinion, culture and society in the context of the lies, liars and untruths consistent with, but not exclusively part of, the rule of Russia’s second (and fourth) post-Soviet President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. Then, it is to assess what future there is for Russia in view of Russia’s peculiar ‘socio-political’ culture of parallel truth and untruth.

Based on new research, literature and historical examination of ‘untruth’ in Russia, using political, social, cultural, media and public opinion analysis, this study develops and applies a new and novel approach, or “model(s),” to the study of lies in Russia. Further, this book seeks to provide an understanding of Russia’s socio-political environment to outsiders not versed in the ins-and-outs of the influences, causes and reasoning for the Russian government’s, and the Russian public’s, reactions to publicized events.

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Copyright year: 2016
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7618-6763-0
ISBN-Online: 978-0-7618-6764-7
Publisher: Hamilton Books, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 201
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Research Question No access
3. Summary No access
4. Author’s Note No access
5. Transliteration No access
1. Goals of This Publication No access
2. Short Explanation of Findings No access
3. Previous Studies of Lying in Russia, and Lying/Political Culture in General No access
4. Notes No access
1. The Abstract of ‘Putinism’ No access
2. What Is Russian Public Opinion? No access
3. Notes No access
1. A Short History No access
2. Profiles in Truth and Untruth in Historical Russia No access
3. Present-Day Russia No access
4. Disinformatsiya, Cyberspace, and Conspiracy Theory No access
5. Regionalism; Moscow and Non-Moscow; Chechnya No access
6. Conclusions No access
7. Notes No access
1. Lying, Daily Life, and Acceptance of Corruption and Theft No access
2. Russian Media and the Acceptance of Lying No access
3. Profiles in Accepting Truth and Untruth in Putin-era Russia No access
4. ‘Accept Me:’ Putin and the Second Chechen War No access
5. Accepting the War on Media Affiliated Oligarchs No access
6. Accepting a War on Journalists No access
7. Conclusions No access
8. Notes No access
1. Innate Justice, the ‘State,’ and the ‘Personal’ No access
2. Russia, Democracy, and Lies No access
3. The Legal Issues of Lying in Russia No access
4. The Ukrainian Situation and Lying in Support of “National Security” No access
5. Conclusions No access
6. Notes No access
1. The Future No access
2. Notes No access
1. Newspapers, Television, and Media Sources No access
2. A Few On-Line Public Opinion Database Sources (mostly in Russian language) No access
3. Very Select Literature No access
About the Author No access Pages 201 - 201