03660nam 2200817 450 991046519180332120200520144314.01-317-14985-81-4094-6709-0(CKB)2560000000141649(EBL)1661233(SSID)ssj0001132021(PQKBManifestationID)12481866(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001132021(PQKBWorkID)11147160(PQKB)10038336(MiAaPQ)EBC1661233(MiAaPQ)EBC5293898(Au-PeEL)EBL1661233(CaPaEBR)ebr10856108(CaONFJC)MIL924651(OCoLC)878078328(Au-PeEL)EBL5293898(CaONFJC)MIL613121(EXLCZ)99256000000014164920140415h20142014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrDiscourse, dictators and democrats Russia's place in a global process /Richard D. Anderson, JrFarnham, Surrey, England ;Burlington, Vermont :Ashgate,2014.©20141 online resource (239 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4094-6710-4 1-4094-6708-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; IndexMany 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.Political cultureRussia (Federation)Political cultureSoviet UnionDiscourse analysisPolitical aspectsRussia (Federation)Discourse analysisPolitical aspectsSoviet UnionRhetoricPolitical aspectsRussia (Federation)RhetoricPolitical aspectsSoviet UnionVotingSocial aspectsRussia (Federation)VotingSocial aspectsSoviet UnionElectionsCorrupt practicesRussia (Federation)ElectionsCorrupt practicesSoviet UnionElectronic books.Political culturePolitical cultureDiscourse analysisPolitical aspectsDiscourse analysisPolitical aspectsRhetoricPolitical aspectsRhetoricPolitical aspectsVotingSocial aspectsVotingSocial aspectsElectionsCorrupt practicesElectionsCorrupt practices306.20947Anderson Richard D(Richard Davis),1950-989822MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910465191803321Discourse, dictators and democrats2264000UNINA