TY - BOOK AU - Nelson,Todd H. TI - Bringing Stalin Back In: memory politics and the creation of a useable past in Putin's Russia AV - DK268 .S8 N424 2019 U1 - 306.20947086 23/eng/20220502 PY - 2019/// CY - Lanham PB - Lexington Books KW - Stalin, Joseph, KW - Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich, KW - Public opinion KW - Russia (Federation) KW - Collective memory KW - Political culture N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-154) and index N2 - "This book examines the favorable portrayal of Stalin in Russia today. Putin and the political elite have co-opted the processes of discourse formulation in Russian society, using these to advance positive perceptions of Stalin, while exercising control over the arenas in which any sort of alternative narratives on Stalinism might emerge"-- ER -