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Examines the ideology of sacrifice in Soviet and post-Soviet culture, analyzing a range of fictional and real-life figures who became part of a pantheon of heroes 'primarily because of their victimhood.'

Political culture --- Idealism --- Heroes --- Social aspects --- Mythology --- Soviet Union --- Russia (Federation) --- Intellectual life. --- Heroism --- Persons --- Antiheroes --- Apotheosis --- Courage --- Animism --- Monism --- Personalism --- Philosophy --- Positivism --- Dualism --- Materialism --- Realism --- Transcendentalism --- Intellectual life --- Russian culture. --- Russian media. --- Soviet culture. --- Soviet ideology. --- contemporary culture. --- cultural analysis. --- cultural influence. --- cultural symbolism. --- cultural transformation. --- martyrdom. --- nationalist nostalgia. --- political discourse. --- post-Soviet culture. --- post-Soviet discourses. --- sacrifice ideology. --- sacrificial language. --- victimhood.

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In Making Martyrs: The Language of Sacrifice in Russian Culture from Stalin to Putin, Yuliya Minkova examines the language of canonization and vilification in Soviet and post-Soviet media, official literature, and popular culture. She argues that early Soviet narratives constructed stories of national heroes and villains alike as examples of uncovering a person's "true self." The official culture used such stories to encourage heroic self-fashioningamong Soviet youth and as a means of self-policing and censure. Later Soviet narratives maintained this sacrificial imagery in order to assert the continued hold of Soviet ideology on society, while post-Soviet discourses of victimhood appeal to nationalist nostalgia. Sacrificial mythology continues to maintain a persistent hold in contemporary culture, as evidenced most recently by the Russian intelligentsia's fascination with the former oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the Russian media coverage of the war in Ukraine, laws against US adoption of Russian children and against the alleged propaganda of homosexuality aimed at minors, renewed national pride in wartime heroes, and the current usage of the words "sacred victim" in public discourse. In examining these various cases, the book traces the trajectory of sacrificial language from individual identity construction to its later function of lending personality and authority to the Soviet and post-Soviet state.

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