Kolesnik N.V. About the visual in the election campaign in modern Russia. In: Power and Elites

Abstract

In the work the monography “Visualization of choice: history and the modern state of pre-electoral agitation in Russia” which is devoted to one of the relevant topics in Russian politology, visual aspects of pre-electoral technologies in modern Russia, is being reviewed.  The authors draw attention to the saturated empiric material which till the recent time hasn’t been input into the scientific language: pre-electoral posters, leaflets, caricatures, photos, drawings, historical documents. Based on the thorough analysis some issues of the pre-electoral agitation in Russia and abroad are considered along with the functions of the visual aspects of election campaign.

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