Introduction: Conservatism and Memory Politics Katalin Miklossy
1. Putin’s History Politics and Conservative turn Markku Kangaspuro
2. A Conservative Turn in a Patriarchal Society? The Entangled Memory of Female Political Activism in Post-Soviet Russia Nadezda Petrusenko
3. Non-traditional Sexual Relationships: Law, Forgetting and the Conservative Political Discourse in Russia Alexander Kondakov
4. How to Conserve Kertbeny’s Grave? A Case of Post-Communist Queer Necrophilia Judit Takacs 5. Witnesses from Gulag and Literary theosis: Varlam Shalamov’s Kolyma Stories and Evgeni Vodolazkin’s Aviator Elina Kahla
6. Revisiting the Narrative of Conservative Russian Islam Kaarina Aitamurto 7. Memory and leverage: Russia’s history policing and the remembrance of 1956 in Hungary Katalin Miklossy
8. A Conservative Turn in Belarus? Exploring the Normative Power Potential of the Russian Conservative Agenda Natalia Morozova
9. Serbia and Russia: between Piety and Politics Brendan Humphreys 10. Paradigm change in Holocaust remembrance: instrumentalising conservatism Andrea Pet? 11. Dilemma over Stalin: Confronting the Great Patriotic War and the Reputation of Russia Markku Kangaspuro 12. Victory Day, Family Style: Grassroots War Commemoration, Collective Memory Habits, and the Shaping of Public Affect Ekaterina Haskins 13. The Routinization of Conservatism: Key Stakeholders of Patriotic Education in Contemporary Russia Anna Sanina 14. Whose Turn, for Whom? Conservative Values and Putin?s Social Contract Jussi Lassila