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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465191803321

Autore

Anderson Richard D (Richard Davis), <1950->

Titolo

Discourse, dictators and democrats : Russia's place in a global process / / Richard D. Anderson, Jr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Farnham, Surrey, England ; ; Burlington, Vermont : , : Ashgate, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-317-14985-8

1-4094-6709-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (239 p.)

Disciplina

306.20947

Soggetti

Political culture - Russia (Federation)

Political culture - Soviet Union

Discourse analysis - Political aspects - Russia (Federation)

Discourse analysis - Political aspects - Soviet Union

Rhetoric - Political aspects - Russia (Federation)

Rhetoric - Political aspects - Soviet Union

Voting - Social aspects - Russia (Federation)

Voting - Social aspects - Soviet Union

Elections - Corrupt practices - Russia (Federation)

Elections - Corrupt practices - Soviet Union

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Preface; Introduction: A Protester's Tale; Part I: Discursive Causality; 1 Voting and Repressing; Part II: Russia Transformed; 2 "People Do Not Talk This Language"; 3 Spreading Political Identity in Russia; Part III: Discursive Consequences of the Colonial Encounter; 4 Colonialism and Enfranchisement in Europe; 5 British Settler Colonialism and Victory in 1945; 6 The Global South; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Many people take the trouble to vote even though each voter's prospect of deciding the election is nearly nil. Russians vote even when pervasive electoral fraud virtually eliminates even that slim chance. Could people



vote or protest because they stop considering their own chances and start to think about an identity shared with others? With this in mind, Discourse, Dictators and Democrats presents a ground-breaking theory of what language use does to politics.