Medievalisms and Russia: The Contest for Imaginary Pasts

This new monograph devoted to a detailed exploration of the ways in which the medieval past has been wielded to propagandic effect in Imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet Russia. From politicians' speeches to popular culture, from Orthodox Christianity to neo-paganism, the medieval Russian past re...

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1. Verfasser: Smelyansky, Eugene (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Leeds ARC Humanities Press [2024]
Schriftenreihe:Arc Medievalist
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Zusammenfassung:This new monograph devoted to a detailed exploration of the ways in which the medieval past has been wielded to propagandic effect in Imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet Russia. From politicians' speeches to popular culture, from Orthodox Christianity to neo-paganism, the medieval Russian past remains crucial in constructing national identity, mobilizing society during times of crisis, and providing alternative models of communal belonging. Frequent appeals to a medieval Slavic past, its heroes and myths, have provided-and continue to provide-a particularly powerful tool for animating imperialist and populist sentiments. This study explores persuasive-and pervasive-recourse to tropes concerned with the Middle Ages in Imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet Russia, seeking to explain why an often romanticized medieval past remains potent in Russian politics, society, and culture today
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024)
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (136 Seiten)
ISBN:9781802702408
DOI:10.1017/9781802702408

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