PUBL.- Military Culture and Patriotism in Today's Russia (in French)

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PUBL.- Military Culture and Patriotism in Today's Russia (in French)

Posted by: Journal of Power Inst. in Post-Sov. Soc. <kozlowsk@club-internet.fr>

Dear Colleagues:

I am pleased to inform you that a book in French, Culture militaire et
patriotisme dans la Russie d'aujourd'hui [Military Culture and
Patriotism in Today's Russia], based on the Journal of Power
Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies (pipss.org) issue 3, has just
been released in Paris by Karthala publishing house.

The book contains three articles from pipss.org and five new and
exclusive articles, an introduction by Anne Le huerou and Elisabeth
Sieca-Kozlowski and a foreword by Frederic Charillon, director of the
French Defense social science Center.

The book is available at www.karthala.com and will soon be available
at www.amazon.fr.

Is is also available in Belgium, Switzerland and
Canada (through Somabec).

You will find below the table of contents.

Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski
Chief Editor

Culture militaire et patriotisme dans la Russie d'aujourd'hui
[Military Culture and Patriotism in Today's Russia]
Anne Le Huérou and Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski (eds.)
Paris: Karthala, 2008

With its commemorations celebrating bravery and heroism in combat, its
exaltation of patriotism in political discourse and in the public
space, its putting forward of foreign policy and the armed forces with
a view to regaining the status of a great power, Russia today seems
engulfed in an unprecedented wave of patriotism, whose most radical
forms - the discourse on Russian "national preference", racist
attacks, say nothing of the extreme violence of the Chechen conflict -
are worrying. This book, a collection of articles by specialists on
subjects dealing with military education, relations between the Church
and the Army, the reform of the army, the production of patriotic TV
serials, strategies for the control of information, focuses on the
role of the military in contemporary Russian institutions and society
with particular emphasis, apart from their spectacular side, on the
production, diffusion and implementation of patriotic and military
discourse and initiatives.

Table of contents

Foreword
Frederic Charillon, Professor of Political Science, Director, Centre
d'Etudes en sciences sociales de la defense

Introduction
Anne Le Huerou and Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski

PART I: The Military's Hold on Society: a long-lasting legacy

1. Russia's belligerent spirit: a legacy of the Soviet militarised culture?
Manfred Sapper

PART II: Institutions at the Service of State patriotism

2. Frustrated love: The Orthodox Church and the Russian army
Nikolaï Mitrokhine

3. From controlling military information to controlling society: what
are the political interests involved in the transformations of the
military media?
Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski

4. The Chechen conflict: new relations between political power, army
and society
Isabelle Facon

PART III: A Society Under the Spell?

5. The inextricable ties between society and the army in post-Soviet
Russia or the resurgence of patronage (shefstvo) from Boris Eltsin to
Vladimir Putin
Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski

6. Young people and the military sphere in Russia: A (de-)militarized zone?
Stephen Webber

7. Defence of the realm: The "new" Russian patriotism on screen
David Gillespie

8. Militating against the military: the dilemmas of engagement and
disengagement
Françoise Dauce

Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski
Chief Editor
www.pipss.org
contact@pipss.org

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