Making Martyrs: The Language of Sacrifice in Russian Culture from Stalin to Putin
(Part of the Rochester Studies in East and Central Europe Series)
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In Making Martyrs: The Language of Sacrifice in Russian Culture from Stalin to Putin, Yuliya Minkova examines the language of canonization and vilification in Soviet and post-Soviet media, official literature, and popular culture. She argues that early Soviet narratives constructed stories of national heroes and villains alike as examples of uncovering a person's "true self." The official culture used such stories to encourage heroic self-fashioning...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1580469140
ISBN13:9781580469142
Release Date:April 2018
Publisher:University of Rochester Press
Length:246 Pages
Weight:1.17 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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