Memory and postcommunist politics -- Rewriting Communist Party history in the constitutional court -- Remembering August 1991 : founding moment or farce? -- Disposing of the spoils of World War II -- Recasting the commemorative calendar -- Remaking the capital's landscape -- Campaigning on the past in the 1996 presidential race -- Searching for a new Russian idea -- Patriotic divisions
Summary
Kathleen E. Smith examines the use of collective memories in Russian politics during the Yeltsin years, surveying the various issues that became battlegrounds for contending notions of what it means to be Russian
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-218) and index
