Appropriating History: The Soviet Past in Belarusian, Russian and Ukrainian Popular Culture edited by Matthias Schwartz and Nina Weller print но за это «что угодно»

но за это «что угодно»

and discovering the startling sights of this multifaceted region

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Evgeny Dobrenko is professor of Russian studies at the University of Sheffield

The book reveals why most of today’s authoritarians are spin dictators—and how they differ from the remaining “fear dictators” such as Kim Jong-un and Bashar al-Assad

Appropriating History: The Soviet Past in Belarusian, Russian and Ukrainian Popular Culture edited by Matthias Schwartz and Nina Weller print но за это «что угодно»Popular media plays an important role in collective imaginations of history. The volume investigates this phenomenon by examining examples from Belarusian, Russian and Ukrainian popular cultures. The contributors analyse the strategies of dramatisation, emotionalisation and personalisation of the past in mainstream films, TV series, novels, comics, computer games and music videos. The case studies discuss how "entertaining" media formats process