Ebook: Putin’s Russia and the Falsification of History: Reasserting Control over the Past

This book provides a bold examination of the political use of history in contemporary Russia. Anton Weiss-Wendt argues that history is yet another discipline misappropriated by the Kremlin for the purpose of rallying the population. He explains how, since the pro-democracy protests in 2011–12, the Russian government has hamstrung independent research and simultaneously aligned state institutions in the promotion of militant patriotism. Indeed the entire state machinery has been mobilized to construe a single, glorious historical narrative with the focus being on Soviet victory over Nazi Germany