The Rhetorical Rise and Demise of "Democracy" in Russian Political Discourse. Volume 2:

David Cratis Williams is Professor of Communication and Rhetorical Studies at Florida Atlantic University. His scholarship focuses on argumentation, rhetorical theory, and criticism; he is a recognized authority on Kenneth Burke. His work on Russian political discourse began during a meeting in Russia in January 1992. Marilyn J. Young is the Wayne C. Minnick Professor of Communication Emerita at Florida State University. Her research has focused on political argument with an emphasis on the development of political rhetoric and argument in the former Soviet Union, particularly Russia. She remains an active scholar in retirement. Michael K. Launer is Professor Emeritus of Russian at Florida State University. In 1987 he interpreted for the first group of Soviet scientists visiting the US following Chernobyl. A State Department certified technical interpreter, he supported Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Department of Energy assistance programs through 2012.

List of Photos
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Note to Readers


Alexander Yuriev
Alexander Yuriev

Dedication: Alexander Ivanovich Yuriev (1942–2020)
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Preface

Marilyn Young at a Political Communication Conference

Introduction to Volume Two

Yeltsin and Gorbachev

Part One: Framework for Understanding the Immediate Post-Soviet Political Environment: Ecological Depredation, Economic Challenges, the Press, and National Identity

Yeltsin Standing on a Tank 1991



A New Day for the Soviet Environment


The Former Soviet Union Leaves Environmental Legacy of Shame


Review of Environmental Management in the Soviet Union by Philip R. Pryde


Russian Scientists Struggle to Survive


Review of The Russian Press from Brezhnev to Yeltsin: Behind the Paper Curtain by John Murray


Argumentation, Globalization, and the New Nationalism: Implications and New Directions



Part Two: Politics and Political Argumentation during the Yeltsin Years



Democratization and Cultures of Communication: The Mission of the International Center for the Advancement of Political Communication and Argumentation


The Role of Public Argument in Emerging Democracies: A Case Study of the December 12, 1993, Elections in the Russian Federation


Analysis of Political Argumentation and Party Campaigning Prior to the 1993 and 1995 State Duma Elections: Lessons Learned and Not Learned


Argument and Political Party Formulations: A Continuing Case Study of Democratization in the Russian Federation


Russian Electoral Politics and the Search for National Identity



Yeltsin Campaign Photograph

Runoff Election Sample Ballot

Choose or Lose: Campaign Button

Choose or Lose: T-shirt Front

Choose or Lose: T-shirt Back

Choose or Lose: Globe and Barbed Wire

Choose or Lose: Jeans Jacket and Prison Garb



Frameworks for Russian Identity: Arguing the Past, Defining the Future


Historical Metaphor and the Search for National Identity in Russia


Russia’s First Elected President Buries Its Last Czar: Reclaiming Cultural Memory in the Search for National Identity



Part Three: Yeltsin’s Multiple Political Profiles (The Three Faces of Boris)



Yeltsin as an Autocrat: The “Constitutional Crisis of 1993” as the Beginning of the End of Russian Democracy



Shelling of the White House

Shelling of the White House

Shelling of the White House



Yeltsin as a Democrat: A Lexical Content Analysis of his Presidential Addresses to the Federal Assembly 1994–1999


Yeltsin as a Man of the People: A Case Study of His Campaign Rhetoric during the 1996 Russian Presidential Election



Yeltsin on the Campaign Trail

Part Four: Looking Backward, Looking Forward



Ten Years of Frustration: Transitional Rhetoric and Democratization in the Russian Federation


The Fear of Politics and the Politics of Fear in Russia—Images in the US Media


Echoes of Berlin 1989: Post-Soviet Discourse and the Rhetoric of National Unity


Foreign Policy Challenges and The Historical “Anchors” of Russian Federation Foreign Policy after September 11, 2001



Alexei Salmin



Instant Democracy: Rhetorical Crises and the Russian Federation, 1991–2007



Yeltsin and Putin in the President’s Office

Afterword

Index 
Bibliography