Ebook: Memory Politics and the Russian Civil War: Reds versus Whites

Marlene Laruelle and Margarita Karnysheva’s topical study gets to the heart of the rich twentieth-century memory debates going on in Putin’s Russia today. The Kremlin has been giving preference to a Soviet-lite nostalgia. Yet in parallel, another historical narrative has gradually consolidated on the Russian public scene, one that favors the opposite camp, namely the pro-Tsarist White movement defeated in the 1920s. Memory Politics and the Russian Civil War offers the first comprehensive exploration of this ‘White Revenge’ in the political, ideological and cultural arenas and what this historical agenda might mean for Russia, both today and tomorrow.