Monument «Motherland calls!» in the political fashion system of modern Russia Cover Image

Монумент «Родина-мать зовет!» в системе политической моды современной России
Monument «Motherland calls!» in the political fashion system of modern Russia

Author(s): Dimitry Grigorievich Smirnov
Subject(s): Cultural history, Visual Arts, Semiology, Political Philosophy, Political history
Published by: Издатель Наталья Докучаева
Keywords: «Motherland Calls!»; symbolic politics; symbol-as-goods; symbolic monetization; «patriotic semiotics»; «consumer semiotics»;

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to the theory and practice of semiosis in Russian symbolic politics. In the first part of the article genesis and functioning of symbolic units are problematized in the economic discourse context through the concepts «symbol-as-goods» and «symbol-as-sign». The second part deals with the semiosis cases of the image «Motherland Calls!» in the Russian political semiosphere. Summing up the author fixes the crisis character of the symbolic policy of modern Russia, characterized by the primacy of political-economic semiotics over the patriotic one.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 59-69
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Russian