The Rhetorical Rise and Demise of Democracy in Russian Political Discourse Volume Four: The Demise of Democracy after Putins Return to Power / David Cratis Williams, Marilyn J. Young, Michael K. Launer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williams, David Cratis, Author.

Young, Marilyn J., Author.

Launer, Michael K., Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Boston, MA Academic Studies Press, [2025]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In this volume we focus on the years following Putin's return to the presidency in 2012. This has been a more active period than his first two terms, including the annexation of Crimea and, ultimately, the invasion of Ukraine. Thus, this period may be characterized as the run-up to that war. The core issue discussed in this volume is Putin's redefinition of "democracy" as the foundation of society and government in the Russian Federation. Putin argues for a strong central government in which unity is characterized as the absence of dissent. In so doing, Putin seeks to recast Russian national identity, relying on a vision of Russia as the victim of Western aggression.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Photos

Acknowledgements

Contributors to Volume Four

Note to Readers

Preface

Introduction to Volume Four

PART ONE Overview

Introduction

CHAPTER 1 Expansion and Contraction of Argumentative Space for Dissent in Russia from Gorbachev to the Present / David Cratis Williams, Marilyn J. Young, Michael K. Launer

CHAPTER 2 Russian Democracy, the Russian State, and the Russian Nation: A Longitudinal Argument Analysis of Culturally Targeted Arguments in Presidential Addresses in the Russian Federation / David Cratis Williams, Marilyn J. Young, Michael K. Launer

CHAPTER 3 Rule of Law, Freedom, and Democracy: Domestic and International Building Blocks of Contemporary Russian Political Ideology / David Cratis Williams, Marilyn J. Young, Michael K. Launer

CHAPTER 4 Purity of Essence: Russian Exceptionalism and the Origins of Putins Obsession with Ukraine / Michael K. Launer, Marilyn J. Young

CHAPTER 5 The Lexicon of Democracy in Putins Speeches / Michael Launer

CHAPTER 6 The Lexicon of Anti-Democracy in Putins Speeches / Michael K. Launer, Marilyn J. Young

PART TWO Introduction and Case Studies

CHAPTER 7 Motivational Structures and Argument Resonance: The Rhetoric of Political Renovation and National Identity in Post-Soviet Russia / David Cratis Williams, Marilyn J. Young, Michael K. Launer

CHAPTER 8 Democracy According to Putin: Explorations in Definitional Argument / David Cratis Williams, Marilyn Young

CHAPTER 9 Rhetorical Approaches to Political Communication: Vladimir Putins Third Inaugural Address, May 7, 2012 / David Cratis Williams, Marilyn J. Young, Michael K. Launer

CHAPTER 10 Letter to the Editor of Slavic Review / Michael K. Launer, David Cratis Williams, Marilyn J. Young

CHAPTER 12 Dont Fall for the Myth of Putins Landslide Victory / Michael K. Launer

CHAPTER 13 The People and Our Fatherland: A Textual Analysis of Vladimir Putins Fourth Inaugural Address, May 7, 2018 / David Cratis Williams, Marilyn J. Young, Michael K. Launer

PART THREE Buildup to the Full-Scale War Against Ukraine

CHAPTER 14 Setting the Context. .. On the Road to War / Michael K. Launer

CHAPTER 15 Analyzing Definitional Argument: The Case of Vladimir Putin and Contemporary Russian Political Discourse / David Cratis Williams, Marilyn J. Young, Michael K. Launer

CHAPTER 16 The Rhetorical Use of Historical Analogy in Putins Crimea Speech / David Cratis Williams, Marilyn J. Young, Michael K. Launer

CHAPTER 17 Two Voices of Vladimir Putin: The Crimea Speech in Putins Use of Public Diplomacy / David Cratis Williams, Marilyn J. Young, Michael K. Launer

CHAPTER 19 Russia-of-a-Thousand-Years: Identity and History / Marilyn J. Young, Michael K. Launer, David Cratis Williams

CHAPTER 20 The Rhetorical Boundaries of Putins Russia in Space, Time, and Mind / Marilyn J. Young, David Cratis Williams, Michael K. Launer

PART FOUR The Start of the War

CHAPTER 21 Reading Rus' Backwards: The Ukrainian Translation of Putins Essay on the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians / Svitlana Jaroszynski, David Cratis Williams

CHAPTER 22 Putins Real Goal: Building an Aryan Nation / Michael K. Launer

CHAPTER 23 Letter to the Editor of the Journal of Military and Strategic Studies / Michael K. Launer

CHAPTER 24 The Rhetoric of Grievance: From the Munich Speech to Full-Scale War in Ukraine / Marilyn J. Young

CHAPTER 25 The Conspiracy Theory of History as Argument: Vladimir Putins September 30, 2022 and February 21, 2023 Addresses Or The Paranoid Style in (Putins) Russian Politics (with Apologies to Richard Hofstadter) / Marilyn J. Young, David Cratis Williams, Michael K. Launer

Afterword: Russian Democracy Defined, Redefined, and Disappeared

Postscript

Bibliography

APPENDIX

Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

979-88-97830-37-4