Neo-Sovietism

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Belarusian Honor Guard carrying the national flags of Belarus and the Soviet Union, as well as the Soviet victory banner , in Minsk, 2019.

Neo-Sovietism , sometimes known as neo-Bolshevism , is the Soviet Union ?style of policy decisions in some post-Soviet states , as well as a political movement of reviving the Soviet Union in the modern world or to reviving specific aspects of Soviet life based on the nostalgia for the Soviet Union . [1] [2] Some commentators have said that current Russian President Vladimir Putin holds many neo-Soviet views, especially concerning law and order and military strategic defense. [3]

Neo-Sovietism in Russian state policies [ edit ]

2021 Moscow Victory Day Parade . Military parades and Soviet military symbolism play an important role in the 9 May celebrations across Russia.

According to Pamela Druckerman of The New York Times , an element of neo-Sovietism is that "the government manages civil society, political life and the media". [4]

According to Matthew Kaminski of The Wall Street Journal , it includes efforts by Putin to express the glory of the Soviet Union in order to generate support for a "revived Great Russian power in the future" by bringing back memories of various Russian accomplishments that legitimatized Soviet dominance, including the Soviet victory against Nazi Germany . Kaminski continues on by saying that neo-Sovietism "offers up Russian jingoism stripped bare of Marxist internationalist pretenses" and uses it to scare Russia's neighbours and to generate Russian patriotism and anti-Americanism . [5]

Andrew Meier of the Los Angeles Times in 2008 listed three points that laid out neo-Sovietism and how modern Russia resembles the Soviet Union: [6]

  • Russia was a land of doublespeak . Meier claims that Russia has deliberately distorted words and facts on various subjects, particularly regarding the Russo-Georgian War at the time by claiming that the United States instigated the conflict and that Georgia was committing genocide in South Ossetia .
  • Russia was willing to enhance its power by any means possible, including harsh repression of its own citizens with examples being Mikhail Khodorkovsky and the Mothers of Beslan .
  • Russia remains a land in which "fear of the state?and its suffocating reach?prevails" by introducing numerous laws that limit free expression and promote propaganda .

Neo-Soviet organizations [ edit ]

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References [ edit ]

  1. ^ Heathershaw, John (2009). Post-Conflict Tajikistan: The Politics of Peacebuilding and the Emergence of Legitimate Order . Central Asian Studies. London; New York: Routledge. pp. 63?64. ISBN   978-1-134-01418-7 .
  2. ^ Shevtsova, Lilia (2007). Russia?Lost in Transition: The Yeltsin and Putin Legacies . Translated by Tait, Arch. Carnegie Endowment. p. 200. ISBN   978-0-87003-236-3 .
  3. ^ Slade, Gavin (Spring 2005). "Deconstructing the Millennium Manifesto : The Yeltsin?Putin Transition and the Rebirth of Ideology" . Vestnik: The Journal of Russian and Asian Studies . 1 (4): 74?92. Archived from the original on 26 September 2007.
  4. ^ Druckerman, Pamela (8 May 2014). "The Russians Love Their Children, Too" . The New York Times . Retrieved 27 December 2015 .
  5. ^ Kaminski, Matthew (26 March 2014). "Putin's Neo-Soviet Men" . The Wall Street Journal . Retrieved 27 December 2015 .
  6. ^ Meier, Andrew (29 August 2008). "Is the Soviet Union back?" . Los Angeles Times . Retrieved 27 December 2015 .
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