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Russian Orthodox Church as the actor of modern politics of memory: the canonization discourse

open access: yesStudia Humanitatis, 2018
On the basis of the analysis of various directions of canonization practices the article shows the transformation of the Russian Orthodox Church in the beginning of the 21st century into an active memory policy actor in Russia.
Batishev Roman Jurevich   +2 more
doaj  

The Heritage of Repression: Memory, Commemoration, and Politics in Post-Soviet Russia

open access: yes, 2019
My PhD was funded by the Gates Cambridge Trust, while I also received financial support from the Jesus College Doctoral Support Fund, the Dorothy Garrod Memorial Trust, Banco Santander, and the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung.
openaire   +1 more source

The (trans)national Russian religious imagination in exile: Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977)

open access: yesModern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract The article offers a case study of how Russian Orthodox who migrated from the Soviet Union after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 reimagined their religious identity and their church in a transnational setting. Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977) was a Russian aristocrat who fell victim to the Stalinist purges but survived the Soviet prison system ...
Ruth Coates
wiley   +1 more source

Symbols and Symbolic Structures in Novels About Wartime Children: “The Golden Cloud Stayed Over” by A. Pristavkin and “The Book Thief” by M. Zusak

open access: yesЭтническая культура
The article provides a comparative analysis of symbols and symbolic structures in the novels “The Book Thief” by the Australian writer M. Zusak and “The Golden Cloud” by the Soviet author A. Pristavkin.
Olesia A. Lazutkina, Daria A. Mashukova
doaj   +1 more source

The ‘State Patriotic Turn’: State Ideology and History According to the Russian Military Historical Society, 2022–2024

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Russian Military Historical Society (RMHS) was founded in 2012 on President Vladimir Putin's orders. Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the society's members have not only published propaganda to support the ‘special military operation’ but have discussed the need for a proper ‘state ideology’.
Kati Parppei
wiley   +1 more source

Civilizing the Nation: Travel, Civility and Bourgeois Nationalism in Israel

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reads The Lapid Guide to Europe, a bestselling Hebrew‐language travel guide published from the 1970s to the 1990s, as a form of bourgeois nationalism enacted through everyday practices of behaviour. Written by journalist and Holocaust survivor Tommy Lapid, the guide operated as civic pedagogy, instructing Israeli travellers in ...
Daniel Mahla
wiley   +1 more source

The Great Buildings of Communism in the Mirror of Soviet Nostalgia / Великие стройки коммунизма в зеркале советской ностальгии

open access: yesИндустрии впечатлений: Технологии социокультурных исследований
The article examines the evolution of the mythology of the great construction projects of communism in the context of nostalgia for the Soviet. The author shows the specifics of the formation of the mythology of great construction projects in the Soviet ...
Sophia Tikhonova / Софья Владимировна Тихонова
doaj   +1 more source

Oscillating Whiteness: A Conceptual Framework for Analysing Transnational Ethno‐Racial Privilege

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article advances oscillating whiteness as a conceptual framework for analysing ethno‐racial privilege across geopolitical settings. The framework theorizes whiteness as a dynamic resource governed by four mechanisms: recognition (how bodies are classified as white), performativity (how whiteness is enacted through cultural scripts ...
Reza Hasmath
wiley   +1 more source

Utopia Remembers: The Soviet Past in the Imagined Communist Future

open access: yesThe Russian Review, EarlyView.
Abstract After a twenty‐five‐year hiatus, the reappearance of utopian literature in 1957 prompted Soviet literary watchdogs to corral the subgenre into an ideologically‐acceptable mold. A key requirement was for future generations to be depicted as reverently commemorating the past.
Antony Kalashnikov
wiley   +1 more source

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