Medievalisms and Russia: The Contest for Imaginary Pasts (Arc Medievalist)

✍ Scribed by Eugene Smelyansky

Publisher: Arc Humanities Press
Year: 2024
Tongue: English
Leaves: 136
Edition: New
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

COVER
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Names, Transliteration, and Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1. A Contested Inheritance
Chapter 2. Alexander Nevsky
Chapter 3. Byzantine Dreams
Chapter 4. Medievalism as Allegory
Conclusion
Select Bibliography
Index

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