Medievalisms and Russia: The Contest for Imaginary Pasts

Eugene Smelyansky

doi:10.1017/9781802702408

Medievalisms and Russia

The Contest for Imaginary Pasts

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Eugene Smelyansky, Washington State University

Publisher:: Amsterdam University Press
Online publication date:: May 2024
Print publication year:: 2024
Online ISBN:: 9781802702408
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781802702408

Series:: Arc Medievalist
Subjects:: History, Regional History Before 1500

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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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The Contest for Imaginary Pasts

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-v

List of Illustrations
pp vi-vi

Acknowledgements
pp vii-vii

Names, Transliteration, and Abbreviations
pp viii-viii

Introduction
pp 1-14

Chapter 1 - A Contested Inheritance: Medieval Rus and Russia’s Origin Myths
pp 15-38

Chapter 2 - Alexander Nevsky: The Once and Future Prince
pp 39-66

Chapter 3 - Byzantine Dreams: Russia as the “Third Rome”
pp 67-88

Chapter 4 - Medievalism as Allegory: The Middle Ages in Unofficial Culture
pp 89-108

Conclusion
pp 109-120

Select Bibliography
pp 121-124

Index
pp 125-128

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