Three Shades of Red: Power of Symbols or Soviet Legacy in Contemporary Inner Asian Capitals

Alexey V. Mikhalev

Three Shades of Red: Power of Symbols or Soviet Legacy in Contemporary Inner Asian Capitals

Publication date: 2021

Ethnographies, 2021, Vol 49 Issue 1-2, pp. 133 - 143

https://doi.org/10.4467/22999558.PE.21.009.14131

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Three Shades of Red: Power of Symbols or Soviet Legacy in Contemporary Inner Asian Capitals

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The paper focuses on Soviet symbols in Inner Asian capitals and the conflicts around socialist legacy. We analyze Ulaanbaatar, Kyzyl, and Ulan-Ude as three different models of transformation of political symbols in urban space. All three capitals in their names contain the word “red” semiotically associated with communist ideology. Correspondingly, we see three different models of symbolic struggle for urban space. Theoretically, the paper is based upon the model of symbolic politics. Empirically, the research is based on materials of our own observations, discourse analysis of media, and official municipal documents. In general, the research is an analysis of symbolic practices of power in the conditions of a number of complex changes in Inner Asia.

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capital, power, genealogy, Inner Asia, Socialistic brotherhood, symbol, memorials

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Information: Ethnographies, 2021, Vol 49 Issue 1-2, pp. 133 - 143

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/22999558.PE.21.009.14131

Article type: Original article

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Three Shades of Red: Power of Symbols or Soviet Legacy in Contemporary Inner Asian Capitals

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Three Shades of Red: Power of Symbols or Soviet Legacy in Contemporary Inner Asian Capitals

Authors

Alexey V. Mikhalev

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7069-2338

Buryat State University, Buryatia, Russian Federation

Published at: 2021

Article status: Open

Licence: CC BY-NC-ND

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Alexey V. Mikhalev (Author) - 100%

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