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Stalin's Millennials
Nostalgia, Trauma, and Nationalism
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2022
Summary
This book examines Joseph Stalin’s increasing popularity in the post-Soviet space, and analyzes how his image, and the nostalgia it evokes, is manipulated and exploited for political gain. The author argues that, in addition to the evil dictator and the Georgian comrade, there is a third portrayal of Stalin—the one projected by the generation that saw the tail end of the USSR, the post-Soviet millennials. This book is not a biography of one of the most controversial historical figures of the past century. Rather, through a combination of sociopolitical commentary and autobiographical elements that are uncommon in monographs of this kind, the attempt is to explore how Joseph Stalin’s complex legacies and the conflicting cult of his irreconcilable tripartite of personalities still loom over the region as a whole, including Russia and, perhaps to an even deeper extent, Koba’s native land—now the independent Republic of Georgia, caught between its unreconciled Soviet past and the potential future within the European Union.
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Edition
1/2022
Copyright Year
2022
ISBN-Print
978-1-7936-4186-1
ISBN-Online
978-1-7936-4187-8
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
160
Product Type
Monograph
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction A Trip to Gori No access Pages 1 - 14
Chapter I Stalin Nostalgia for the Past, Present, and Future No access Pages 15 - 34
Chapter II Georgian Man of Borderlands No access Pages 35 - 64
Chapter III Soviet Red Tsar No access Pages 65 - 84
Chapter IV Tale of the Third Stalin No access Pages 85 - 96
Chapter V Cult of Personality No access Pages 97 - 114
Chapter VI Trauma and Nationalism No access Pages 115 - 126
