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«IZVESTIYA IRKUTSKOGO GOSUDARSTVENNOGO UNIVERSITETA». SERIYA «POLITOLOGIYA. RELIGIOVEDENIE»
«THE BULLETIN OF IRKUTSK STATE UNIVERSITY». SERIES «POLITICAL SCIENCE AND RELIGION STUDIES»
ISSN 2073-3380 (Print)

List of issues > Series «Political Science and Religion Studies». 2024. Vol 47

Dead ends of Identity Politics in the CIS Countries

Author(s)
G. A. Tsykunov
Abstract
The article discusses the issues of formation of national identity in the CIS countries. The author pays important attention to state historical policy, which has an effective influence on the definition of a new ideology, public consciousness, and the creation of post-Soviet political institutions. The article analyzes the transformation of national history, its adaptation to the interests of the ruling national elites to solve their internal political problems. The fundamental method of new interpretation of historical knowledge was mythologization, which confirmed all the main events and phenomena of the past. The author gives numerous examples of the introduction of postcolonial discourse into the historical consciousness of the population, the formation of a negative perception of the Soviet period of history; explores issues of justification by Commonwealth countries of their belonging to European identity.
About the Authors
Tsykunov Grigory Alexandrovich, Doctor of Sciences (History), Professor, Department of Theory and History States and Rights, Baikal State University, 11, Lenin st., Irkutsk, 664003, Russian Federation, e-mail: tsykunovqa@qmail.com
For citation
Tsykunov G.A. Dead ends of Identity Politics in the CIS Countries. The Bulletin of Irkutsk State University. Series Political Science and Religion Studies, 2024, vol. 47, pp. 93-99. https://doi.org/10.26516/2073-3380.2024.47.93 (in Russian)
Keywords
Commonwealth of Independent States, national identity, historical politics, public consciousness, mythologization.
UDC
32
DOI
https://doi.org/10.26516/2073-3380.2024.47.93
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