Medievalisms and Russia

The Contest for Imaginary Pasts

Smelyansky Eugene Smelyansky

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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Geschichte

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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.

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