This article examines the phenomenon of apparently grassroots, K ’ remlin-supporting TikTokers in the early days following Russia’s full -scale invasion of Ukraine and argues for a multidirectional conception of propaganda as being driven by intricate processes of attunement and synchronization.
Abstract This article examines how the historical concept of Nazism has been transformed into a propaganda narrative within Russian state media discourse. Since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Russian leaders have repeatedly justified military action through the language of “denazification.” While prominent...
Ruslan Kavatsiuk, O. Makukhin, V. Seleznova· Eastern European Holocaust S...· 0 citations
This article aims to examine Mavka, a mythological forest spirit that has become a dynamic figure of resistance against occupation in the Russian‐Ukrainian war. Drawing on textual and visual materials from the Zla Mavka Telegram channel, the analysis conceptualizes Mavka as a symbolic framework that integrates three...
Miriam Billig, Nadia Iermakov· Nations and Nationalism· 0 citations
This article examines the problem of the escalation of interethnic “hate speech” within Kazakhstan’s digital discourse, with a particular focus on the Instagram platform. The central research problem lies in the destabilization of social consensus as social media transform into spaces of uncontrolled transmission of sy...
Zhannat Doskhozhina, Y. Toktarov· Адам әлемі· 0 citations
This article investigates the “blockbuster apparatus”—the intersection of massive capital investment, political soft power, and ideological dissemination. It asks not merely how these films communicate their messages, but whether they are driven by a specific ideological or propagandistic agenda, or whether their appar...
Elie Yazbek· Frontiers in Communication· 0 citations
Abstract Recent years have witnessed a waning trust in institutions and radical challenges to democratic governance even in resilient democracies, leading to increasing concerns about democratic backsliding and an overall crisis of democracy. The emerging technoliberal rationality, with its neoreactionary tendencies, h...
The article investigates the causes of the profound crisis that struck the Japanese detective genre (
tantei shōsetsu
探偵小説) in the 1930s. Existing historiography predominantly views this crisis through the prism of external ideological factors, namely the intensification of militarism and censorship in pre-war...
D. Martynov, F. M. Kungurov· Japanese Studies in Russia· 0 citations
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