POLI 432 Lecture 13: POLI432 – 13

• School: McGill University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 432
• Professor: Benjamin Forest

Document Summary

Soviet-era monuments in russia: russian anthem very similar to the soviet one same words basically, same melody. Emphasize some of the issues of what happened with soviet symbolism in russia today: vast majority of people actually approved this revival as part of broader symbolic renaissance of stalin after putin came to power, stalin though"! I mean, he was the bad dude . : re-appropriation of symbolic legacy of ussr (even less-democratic parts of it). Kazan cathedral, moscow: rebuilt the cathedral that has been tore down: cathedral of christ savior, moscow: original cathedral blown up by stalin, who wanted to build the. Federation actually still thinks pretty high about this: ex. Sometimes someone comes up with the idea of burying him but then there are protests against it: disavowed (aren"t useful for anybody anymore): cpsu (communist party of the soviet union); soviet economy, completely taken down or changed, ex.