Tsars, Soviets, Putin : A Study of Russia’s Politics of History

Abstract

Wojciech Materski’s book gives a synopsis of the politics of memory practized by Russia from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century. He shows how, irrespectively of the period in its history, Russia’s politics of memory have always been used as a tool to integrate the country’s inhabitants, reinforce the cult of their leaders, and relativize their mistakes and crimes.