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Abstract
The two main narratives that underlie official propaganda in contemporary Russia—national "modernization" and the Soviet Union's victory in the Great Patriotic War (World War II)—can be seen as examples of Eric Hobsbawm's "invented tradition" and viewed from a perspective that understands propaganda as a "cultural product."