The Rhetorical Rise and Demise of "Democracy" in Russian Political Discourse. Volume 2:

The Promise of "Democracy" during the Yeltsin Years

David Cratis Williams, Marilyn J. Young, Michael K. Launer (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

470 Seiten

2022
Academic Studies Press (Verlag)
978-1-64469-650-7 (ISBN)

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Russia in the 1990s had a “Wild West” vibe, as reformist and conservative elements struggled for ascendancy. It was a time of heightened media freedom, a burgeoning civil society, and a quest for a new national identity. This volume examines the arc of official political rhetoric during this critical period.

Post-Soviet Russia in the 1990s saw a surge in civic participation. The traditional power structure officially relinquished control of political rhetoric and a nascent civil society had begun to emerge. Free elections and political partisanship between reformist and conservative elements of Russian society, spurred on by Russia’s economic troubles, gave a “Wild West” tenor to public rhetoric that was reflected in the election campaigns of 1993, 1995, and 1996. In this volume, the authors examine, through a series of contemporaneously written essays, the arc of government rhetoric during the height of media freedom, the quest for a new national identity, and the struggle for self-government.

David Cratis Williams is Professor of Communication and Rhetorical Studies at Florida Atlantic University. His scholarship focuses on argumentation, rhetorical theory, and criticism; he is a recognized authority on Kenneth Burke. His work on Russian political discourse began during a meeting in Russia in January 1992. Marilyn J. Young is the Wayne C. Minnick Professor of Communication Emerita at Florida State University. Her research has focused on political argument with an emphasis on the development of political rhetoric and argument in the former Soviet Union, particularly Russia. She remains an active scholar in retirement. Michael K. Launer is Professor Emeritus of Russian at Florida State University. In 1987 he interpreted for the first group of Soviet scientists visiting the US following Chernobyl. A State Department certified technical interpreter, he supported Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Department of Energy assistance programs through 2012.

List of Photos
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Note to Readers

Alexander Yuriev
Alexander Yuriev

Dedication: Alexander Ivanovich Yuriev (1942–2020)
Alexander Yuriev

Preface

Marilyn Young at a Political Communication Conference

Introduction to Volume Two

Yeltsin and Gorbachev

Part One: Framework for Understanding the Immediate Post-Soviet Political Environment: Ecological Depredation, Economic Challenges, the Press, and National Identity

Yeltsin Standing on a Tank 1991

A New Day for the Soviet Environment

The Former Soviet Union Leaves Environmental Legacy of Shame

Review of Environmental Management in the Soviet Union by Philip R. Pryde

Russian Scientists Struggle to Survive

Review of The Russian Press from Brezhnev to Yeltsin: Behind the Paper Curtain by John Murray

Argumentation, Globalization, and the New Nationalism: Implications and New Directions

Part Two: Politics and Political Argumentation during the Yeltsin Years

Democratization and Cultures of Communication: The Mission of the International Center for the Advancement of Political Communication and Argumentation

The Role of Public Argument in Emerging Democracies: A Case Study of the December 12, 1993, Elections in the Russian Federation

Analysis of Political Argumentation and Party Campaigning Prior to the 1993 and 1995 State Duma Elections: Lessons Learned and Not Learned

Argument and Political Party Formulations: A Continuing Case Study of Democratization in the Russian Federation

Russian Electoral Politics and the Search for National Identity

Yeltsin Campaign Photograph

Runoff Election Sample Ballot

Choose or Lose: Campaign Button

Choose or Lose: T-shirt Front

Choose or Lose: T-shirt Back

Choose or Lose: Globe and Barbed Wire

Choose or Lose: Jeans Jacket and Prison Garb

Frameworks for Russian Identity: Arguing the Past, Defining the Future

Historical Metaphor and the Search for National Identity in Russia

Russia’s First Elected President Buries Its Last Czar: Reclaiming Cultural Memory in the Search for National Identity

Part Three: Yeltsin’s Multiple Political Profiles (The Three Faces of Boris)

Yeltsin as an Autocrat: The “Constitutional Crisis of 1993” as the Beginning of the End of Russian Democracy

Shelling of the White House

Shelling of the White House

Shelling of the White House

Yeltsin as a Democrat: A Lexical Content Analysis of his Presidential Addresses to the Federal Assembly 1994–1999

Yeltsin as a Man of the People: A Case Study of His Campaign Rhetoric during the 1996 Russian Presidential Election

Yeltsin on the Campaign Trail

Part Four: Looking Backward, Looking Forward

Ten Years of Frustration: Transitional Rhetoric and Democratization in the Russian Federation

The Fear of Politics and the Politics of Fear in Russia—Images in the US Media

Echoes of Berlin 1989: Post-Soviet Discourse and the Rhetoric of National Unity

Foreign Policy Challenges and The Historical “Anchors” of Russian Federation Foreign Policy after September 11, 2001

Alexei Salmin

Instant Democracy: Rhetorical Crises and the Russian Federation, 1991–2007

Yeltsin and Putin in the President’s Office

Afterword

Index
Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	12.04.2022
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	Brighton
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-64469-650-9 / 1644696509
ISBN-13	978-1-64469-650-7 / 9781644696507
Zustand	Neuware