Ultra-Russian, Ultra-Besieged
Journal: Sprawy Międzynarodowe
Year: 2024

Memory politics in Russia has experienced substantial evolution since Vladimir Putin’s comeback to presidential seat in 2012 and the so-called new conservative project. His campaign programme articles paved the way for redefining official understanding of Russianness, which particularly affected Kaliningrad Oblast with its pre-1945 past. The subsequent years witnessed an attempt to holistically redefine the existing narratives of the past in the semi-exclave and weave them into the concept of Ru