Making Martyrs: The Language of Sacrifice in Russian Culture from Stalin to Putin

by Yuliya Minkova

In Making Martyrs: The Language of Sacrifice in Russian Culture from Stalin to Putin, Yuliya Minkova examines the language of canonization and vilification in Soviet and post-Soviet media, official literature, and popular culture. She argues that early Soviet narratives constructed stories of national heroes and villains alike as examples of uncovering a person's "true self." The official culture used such stories to encourage heroic self-fashioning...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580469140
• ISBN13: 9781580469142
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: University of Rochester Press
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"