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This book provides a bold examination of the political use of history in contemporary Russia. Anton Weiss-Wendt argues that history is yet another discipline misappropriated by the Kremlin for the purpose of rallying the population. He explains how, since the pro-democracy protests in 201112, the Russian government has hamstrung independent research and aligned state institutions in the promotion of militant patriotism. The entire state machinery has been mobilized to construe a single, glorious historical narrative with the focus on Soviet victory over Nazi Germany.
Putins Russia and the Falsification of History examines the intricate networks in Russia that engage in historymaking. Whether it is the Holocaust or Soviet mass terror, Tsars or Stalin, the regime promotes a syncretic interpretation of Russian history that supports the notion of a strong state and authoritarian rule. That interpretation finds its way into new monuments, exhibitions, and quasi-professional associations. In addition to administrative measures of control, the Russian state has been using the penal code to censor critical perspectives on history, typically advanced by individuals who also happen to call for a political change in Russia.
This powerful book shows how history is increasingly becoming an element of political technology in Russia, with the systematic destruction of independent institutions setting the very future of History as an academic discipline in Russia in doubt.

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Putins Russia and the Falsification of History To Vlad Kolesnikov 19972015 - photo 1
Putins Russia and the Falsification of History
To Vlad Kolesnikov (19972015)
Putins Russia and the Falsification of History
Reasserting Control over the Past
Anton Weiss-Wendt
Anton Weiss-Wendt is Research Professor at the Norwegian Center for Holocaust - photo 2
Anton Weiss-Wendt is Research Professor at the Norwegian Center for Holocaust and Minority Studies. His recent publications include A Rhetorical Crime: Genocide in the Geopolitical Discourse of the Cold War (2018) and The Soviet Union and the Gutting of the UN Genocide Convention (2017).
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Russian foreign ministry hosts a reception to mark the 75th anniversary of victory in the Battle of Stalingrad. Moscow, February 2, 2018. Viacheslav Prokofiev/TASS
Press conference on the question of authenticity of Romanovs remains. Moscow, November 13, 2015. Alexander Scherbak/TASS
International biker show in Crimea. Sevastopol, August 18, 2017. Alexei Pavlishak/TASS
Immortal Regiment parade. Narian-Mar, May 9, 2018. Anton Taibarei/Nenets Autonomous Region Administration
Immortal Regiment parade. Barnaul, May 9, 2019. Nina Tatarnikova
President Vladimir Putin attending the unveiling ceremony of a monument to the victims of political repression. Moscow, October 30, 2017. Alexei Nikolskii/Russian Presidential Information and Press Office/TASS
Historical reconstruction of the Battle of Berlin. Moscow region, April 23, 2017. Sergei Bobylev/Russian Defense Ministry Press Office/TASS
Alley of Rulers unveiled in Moscow. Moscow, May 26, 2017. Artem Geodakian/TASS
Ivan the Terrible monument unveiled in the city of Orel. Orel, October 3, 2016. Alexander Riumin/TASS
Sculptor Salavat Scherbakov and his statue of Mikhail Kalashnikov in the works. Moscow, January 20, 2017. Valerii Sharifulin/TASS
President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visit Moscows Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center. Moscow, January 29, 2018. Alexei Nikolskii/Russian Presidential Information and Press Office/TASS
Karelia Memorial head, Yuri Dmitriev, found not guilty of producing child pornography, Petrozavodsk, June 28, 2018. Igor Podgornyi/TASS
It has become a tradition for me to start the acknowledgment list by thanking my home institution, the Norwegian Center for Holocaust and Minority Studies, and its director, Guri Hjeltnes. Although Oslo is a distance away from Moscow, Norway is a neighboring country to Russia after all. I can hardly imagine a better working place to contemplate the purpose of history in general and its political application by Putins regime in particular. Among other colleagues at Oslo, I want to single out chief librarian Ewa M. Mork, who was indispensableas she has always beenin procuring certain books and articles I needed for my research.
It is my intention to put a human face on history politics, which may otherwise remain an abstract matter. I am grateful to Nina Tatarnikova, who aptly captured in her photographs the spirit of Immortal Regiment, by far the most popular annual public event in Russia. Another gifted Russian documentary photographer, Oksana Yushko, takes credit for the books front cover image. Several scholars took their time to read through and comment on certain chapters in the book: Ivan Kurilla, Nikolay Koposov, Nanci Adler, Vassili Schedrin, and Victoria Kheterer. To all of them, I am thankful.
My collaboration with Bloomsbury Academic goes back to 2012. Rhodri Mogford was my very first contact in the editorial office. Currently a Publisher at Bloomsbury, Rhodri is also the person who has enthusiastically embraced the present book project. In addition to Rhodri, I have had the pleasure of working with several of his colleagues at Bloomsbury over the years: Beatriz Lopez, Claire Lipscomb, Laura Reeves, and Emma Goode.
The book is dedicated to Vlad Kolesnikov, a teenager from Podolsk who died for his beliefs. In the wake of the Russian annexation of Crimea, Vlad publicly expressed his opposition to the Kremlins aggressive policy vis--vis Ukraine. Consequently, he was harassed by school authorities, abused by his peers, and ostracized by his own grandfather, a former KGB officer. Feeling isolated, he succumbed to pressure and on Christmas Day, 2015, took his own life. Vlad Kolesnikov has written the modern history of Russia in his own blood.
BRIC
Brazil, Russia, India, and China
CIS
Commonwealth of Independent States
EISR
Expert Institute of Social Research
KGB
Soviet Security Police (19541991)
MGIMO
Moscow State University of International Relations of the Russian Foreign Ministry
MID
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
NKVD
Soviet Security Police (19341946)
NOD
National Liberation Movement
NTS
National Alliance of Russian Solidarists
RAN
Russian Academy of Sciences
RIO
Russian Historical Society
RT
Russia Today
RVIO
Russian Military Historical Society
SERB
Russian Liberation Movement
USHMM
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
VAK
Supreme Attestation Board
VIO
Free Historical Society
On January 21, 1948, the US Department of State released a document collection, NaziSoviet Relations from 1939 to 1941 . Selected records of the German Foreign Office dealt specifically with the MolotovRibbentrop Pact and the secret protocol attached to it. The document collection served to pinpoint the origins of the Second World War and to simultaneously warn of the Soviet designs for postwar Europe. While some American commentators hailed the State Department publication as a perfect way of getting at the Soviets, others saw no particular gain in the adversaries in the nascent Cold War hitting each other over the head with the stick of history. The Soviet response was quick to arrive. On February 9 the Soviet Information Bureau issued a six-thousand-word statement, Falsifiers of History, which put the onus for the outbreak of the war on the United States and Britain. The formal statement did not directly engage with the documents in the US publication, pressing home that American business had financed Hitlers war industries while the British negotiated the disastrous 1938 Munich Agreement.
It is not just the selective facts and their interpretation that make Falsifiers of History so special. Rather, it is the odium attached to all those who do not buy into it and a general sense of ownership of history. The pamphlet nails generic opponents as enemies of democracy, people who have lost their senses. They slander the Soviet Union because they are mortally afraid of the historical truth. Instead of engaging with an argument, the Soviet publication served circular logic: Of course, the falsifiers of history and slanderers have no respect for factsthat is why they are dubbed falsifiers and slanderers. It is a dichotomy inbuilt in a historical record: the progressive, peace-loving Soviet Union versus the reactionary, aggressive United States and Britain; the objective and honest approach to historical truth versus distortion and hoax; irrefutable facts versus concealed facts. Providing affirmative answers to the rhetorical questions, Falsifiers of History left no space for debate. It can be summed up in a single proposition: The indubitable fact that the policy of the Soviet Union was and is the correct policy.
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