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100 | 1 | _aStallard, Katharine P., | |
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_aDancing on bones : _bhistory and power in China, Russia, and North Korea / _cKatie Stallard. |
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_aNew York : _bOxford University Press, _c[2022] |
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_axiv, 286 pages : _billustrations ; _c25 cm |
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520 | _aHistory didn't end. Democracy didn't triumph. America's leading role in the world is no longer assured. Instead, authoritarian rule is on the rise, and the global order established after 1945 is under attack. This is the phenomenon Katie Stallard tackles in Dancing on Bones as she examines how the leaders of China, Russia, and North Korea manipulate the past to serve the present and secure the future of authoritarian rule. Russia has annexed Crimea, started a war in eastern Ukraine, and repeatedly massed troops on its borders. China has stepped up war games near Taiwan and militarized the South China Sea, while North Korea has resumed missile testing and blood-curdling threats against the United States. These three states consistently top lists of threats to US and European security, and yet the leaders of all three insist that it is their country that is threatened, rewriting history and exploiting the memory of the wars of the last century to justify their actions and shore up popular support. Since coming to power, Xi Jinping has almost doubled the length of China's World War II, Vladimir Putin has elevated the memory of the Great Patriotic War to the status of a national religion, and Kim Jong Un has invested vast sums in rebuilding war museums in his impoverished state, while those who try to challenge the official version of history are silenced and jailed. But this didn't start with Putin, Xi, and Kim, and it won't end with them. Drawing on first-hand, on-the-ground reporting, Dancing on Bones argues that if we want to understand where these three nuclear powers are heading, we must understand the stories they are telling their citizens about the past. | ||
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_aMemory _xPolitical aspects _zChina. |
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_aMemory _xPolitical aspects _zKorea (North) |
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_aMemory _xPolitical aspects _zRussia (Federation) |
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_aWorld War, 1939-1945 _xHistoriography. |
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_aChina _xForeign relations _y21st century. |
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_aChina _xPolitics and government _y2002- |
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_aKorea (North) _xForeign relations _y21st century. |
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_aKorea (North) _xPolitics and government _y2011- |
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_aRussia (Federation) _xForeign relations _y21st century. |
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_aRussia (Federation) _xPolitics and government _y1991- |
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