Week 06
Propaganda Narratives: Symbols, Identities, Indoctrination
Required Reading
If You Will Read Only One Piece
How Soft Propaganda Persuades
Other Pieces Discussed in the Lecture
Further Reading
J. Paul Goode
“Russian Propaganda from V to Z: Projecting Banal and Everyday Nationalism in Unsettled Times”
Nationalities Papers (2026)
Dechun Zhang
Digital Nationalism and Affective Governance: Propaganda, Public Sentiment, and Soft Authoritarianism in China
Routledge (2026)
Reading guidance: Chapters 3–6.
Philipp M. Lutscher, Jonas Bergan Draege and Carl Henrik Knutsen
“The Effects of Government Propaganda in Electoral Authoritarian Regimes: Evidence from Turkey”
European Journal of Political Research (2026)
Yağmur Karakaya
“The Conquest of Hearts: The Central Role of Ottoman Nostalgia within Contemporary Turkish Populism”
American Journal of Cultural Sociology (2020)
Gulnaz Sharafutdinova
The Red Mirror: Putin’s Leadership and Russia’s Insecure Identity
Oxford University Press (2020)
Reading guidance: Chapter 2, “The White Knight and the Red Queen.”
Davide Cantoni, Yuyu Chen, David Y. Yang, Noam Yuchtman and Y. Jane Zhang
“Curriculum and Ideology”
Journal of Political Economy (2017)
David Yanagizawa-Drott
“Propaganda and Conflict: Evidence from the Rwandan Genocide”
The Quarterly Journal of Economics (2014)
Centre for New Ideas
“Programme Ideology: Textbooks on the Ideology of the Belarusian State as a Mechanism of Preemptive Authoritarianism”
Research article (2026)
Alice Mironava
“Children of the Dictatorship: Indoctrination and Militarization of Belarusian Youth after 2020”
Ideas Bank report (2026)