1. Introduction to Discourse Analysis (lecture)

Required reading

Reisigl, M. (2017). The Discourse-Historical Approach. In The Routledge Handbook of Critical Discourse Studies. Taylor & Francis Group.

Supplementary reading

Dijk, TA van. (2014). Discourse, cognition, society. Discourse studies reader: Main currents in theory and analysis. John Benjamins Publishing Company.

Wodak, R., & Forchtner, B. (Eds.). (2017). The Routledge handbook of language and politics. Taylor & Francis Group.

Hodge, R., & Kress, G. (1988). Appendix: Key Concepts in a Theory of Social Semiotics. In Social Semiotics (pp. 261–272). Cornell University Press.

Slides: PDF

2. Political discourse and the dynamics of sociocultural practices in contemporary Russia (lecture)

Supplementary reading

Sharafutdinova, G. (2021). MMM for VVP: Building the Modern Media Machine. In G. Sharafutdinova, The Red Mirror (pp. 133–149). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197502938.003.0006

Slides: PDF

3, 4. Ideological Elements of Putinist Discourse (lecture, seminar)

Required reading

Snegovaya, M., Kimmage, M., & McGlynn, J. (2023). The Ideology of Putinism: Is It Sustainable? https://www.csis.org/analysis/ideology-putinism-it-sustainable

Supplementary reading

Applebaum, A. (2013). Putinism: The ideology. Strategic Update, 13 (2). https://www.lse.ac.uk/ideas/Assets/Documents/updates/LSE-IDEAS-Putinism-The-Ideology.pdf

Колесников, А. (2022). Научный путинизм. Как в России оформляется официальная идеология. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. https://carnegieendowment.org/politika/88295

Pomeranz, W. E. (2023). The Russian Idea Revisited. Wilson Center. https://www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/russian-idea-revisited

Савин, Н. (2023). Почему путинизм (еще) не является идеологией. https://re-russia.net/discussion/0102/

Unity Day Video. Parts 2 and 3. https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/cbm3jkvjbcm73ztvmcit1/h?rlkey=7ghlo3kxp54zwimr6od2a1bs1&dl=0

Texts to be analyzed

Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 809 of 09.11.2022. (2022). Главы I-II [Chapters I-II]. http://kremlin.ru/acts/bank/48502

Putin's speech at Valdai International Discussion Club meeting. (2022). http://kremlin.ru/events/president/news/69695 [English: http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/69695]

Unity Day Video. Part 1 (with English Subtitles). https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/aqhg5vwbqnfqqzfsroqa4/h?rlkey=j8q8pe7i031i0x6ikkqxl4w54&dl=0

5, 6. Discursive Construction of National Identities: Russianness in the Kremlin's Discourse (lecture, seminar)

Required reading

Pertsev, A. (2023). Credo of developed Putinism. How to explain the world «Osnovy rossiiskoi gosudarstvennosti». Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. https://carnegieendowment.org/politika/90247

Malinova, O. (2019). Constructing the “Usable Past”: The Evolution of the Official Historical Narrative in Post-Soviet Russia. In N. Bernsand & B. Törnquist-Plewa (Eds.), Cultural and Political Imaginaries in Putin's Russia (Vol. 11, pp. 85–104). Brill. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1163/j.ctvbqs855.8

Ефремова, В. Н. (2014). Государственные праздники как инструменты символической политики: возможности теоретического описания. Символическая политика, (2), 66-79.

Supplementary reading

Laruelle, M. (2018). Russian nationalism: Imaginaries, doctrines, and political battlefields. Taylor & Francis Group.

Texts to be analyzed

Путин, В. (2012). Россия: Национальный вопрос. https://www.ng.ru/politics/2012-01-23/1_national.html

Symbols of the state authority in the Russian Federation. Presidential Library. https://www.prlib.ru/en/section/676139

7. Discursive Construction of National Identities: Russianness in the Discourse of the Russian Opposition (lecture, seminar)

Required reading

Laruelle, M. (2018). Nationalism as a political battlefield: in the streets, for or against the Kremlin. In Russian nationalism: Imaginaries, doctrines, and political battlefields. Taylor & Francis Group.

Texts to be analyzed

Программа НБП (1994). https://web.archive.org/web/20090307020935/http://nbp-info.com/cat106/index.html

Манифест Национального русского освободительного движения "НАРОД". https://www.apn.ru/index.php?newsid=17321

Манифест клуба рассерженных патриотов. https://web.archive.org/web/20231205204407/https://angrypatriots.ru/

Weiss, P. (2023). Нет русских кроме русских. РДК.