RT @RuMOR_CarletonU: 17/ Both analogies sought to conjure the audience’s fears of chaos and disorder in much the same way that the Kremlin…
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17/ Both analogies sought to conjure the audience’s fears of chaos and disorder in much the same way that the Kremlin has used the specter of the 1990s to secure autocratic rule and to caution against political liberalization. https://t.co/IRTr2pTnuG
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#rwou And then they are reading Olga Malinova's "Framing the Collective Memory of the 1990s as a Legitimation Tool for Putin’s Regime" from the journal Problems of Post-Communism https://t.co/SHH8QpBzwu
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And another great research in #PoPC on the framing of the "turbulent 1990s" vs the "stable 2000s" in legitimising Putin's regime. It is this memory framing of contrast with the past that feeds into his current support https://t.co/VTOoFgfF7x