Framing the Collective Memory of the 1990s as a Legitimation Tool for Putin's Regime

The article reveals how a sharp contrast between the "turbulent 1990s" and the "stable 2000s" was constructed and exploited by Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev for shoring up the regime. Using a qualitative content analysis, I demonstrate how Putin's power was legitimized...

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Published inProblems of post-communism Vol. 68; no. 5; pp. 429 - 441
Main Author Malinova, Olga
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Armonk Routledge 03.09.2021
M. E. Sharpe Inc
Subjects
Collective memory
Content analysis
Legitimation
Populism
Postcommunist societies
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Summary:The article reveals how a sharp contrast between the "turbulent 1990s" and the "stable 2000s" was constructed and exploited by Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev for shoring up the regime. Using a qualitative content analysis, I demonstrate how Putin's power was legitimized through three discursive mechanisms of re-presenting the recent past: the coining of buzzwords that became symbolic descriptors of the 1990s; the populist framing of the regime's policies; the composition of narratives about the immediate post-Soviet years. Constructed largely in the early 2000s, the negative framing of the Yeltsin decade became central to the official legitimizing discourse of Putin's regime.
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ISSN:1075-8216
1557-783X
DOI:10.1080/10758216.2020.1752732