The Red Mirror Putin’s Leadership and Russia’s Insecure - Gulnaz Sharafutdinova

Written by Gulnaz Sharafutdinova
Read by Michael Page
Format: MP3

General Information
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Title: The Red Mirror
Subtitle: Putin’s Leadership and Russia’s Insecure Identity
Author: Gulnaz Sharafutdinova
Reader: Michael Page
Audiobook Copyright: 2021-04-06
Publisher: HighBridge
Duration: 9 hrs 24 mins
ISBN: 9781696603409
Subjects: History, Political

File Information
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Media Format: AAC
Total Files: 1
Total Size: 522 MB
Bitrate: 128 kbps
Sample Rate: 44.1 kHz
Channels: Stereo

Book Description
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What explains Putin’s enduring popularity in Russia?

In The Red Mirror, Gulnaz Sharafutdinova uses social identity theory
to explain Putin’s leadership. The main source of Putin’s political
influence, she finds, lies in how he articulates the shared collective
perspective that unites many Russian citizens. Under his tenure, the
Kremlin’s media machine has tapped into powerful group emotions of
shame and humiliation-derived from the Soviet transition in the
1990s-and has politicized national identity to transform these
emotions into pride and patriotism. Culminating with the annexation of
Crimea in 2014, this strategy of national identity politics is still
the essence of Putin’s leadership in Russia. But victimhood-based
consolidation is also leading the country down the path of political
confrontation and economic stagnation. To enable a cultural, social,
and political revival in Russia, Sharafutdinova argues, political
elites must instead focus on more constructively conceived ideas about
the country’s future.

Integrating methods from history, political science, and social
psychology, The Red Mirror offers the clearest picture yet of how the
nation’s majoritarian identity politics are playing out.