FOLETTI, Ivan and Adrien PALLADINO. Byzantium or Democracy? Kondakov’s Legacy in Emigration: the Institutum Kondakovianum and André Grabar, 1925–1952. 1st ed. Brno-Rome: Masarykova univerzita, Viella. 211 pp. Parva Convivia 8. ISBN 978-80-210-9637-0. 2020.
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Original name Byzantium or Democracy? Kondakov’s Legacy in Emigration: the Institutum Kondakovianum and André Grabar, 1925–1952
Name in Czech Byzanc nebo demokracie? Dědictví Kondakova v emigraci: Institutum Kondakovianum a André Grabar, 1925–1952
Authors FOLETTI, Ivan and Adrien PALLADINO.
Edition 1. vyd. Brno-Rome, 211 pp. Parva Convivia 8, 2020.
Publisher Masarykova univerzita, Viella
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Original language English
Type of outcome Book on a specialized topic
Field of Study 60400 6.4 Arts
Country of publisher Czech Republic
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
Publication form printed version "print"
ISBN 978-80-210-9637-0
Keywords (in Czech) ruská emigrace, byzantská studia, dějiny umění, historiografie dějin umění, Československo, Francie, Rusko
Keywords in English Russian emigration; Byzantine Studies; Art History; History of Art History; Czechoslovakia; France; Russian cultural production; Interwar period; Russian revolution; totalitarian regimes
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Abstract
The notion of “Byzantium” has for centuries been associated with autocracy, totalitarianism, and suppression of freedom. It thus became the favored model for the Russian autocracy. In the nineteenth-century, Russian scholars working under Tsarist regimes were, either explicitly or tacitly, condoning and even supporting the ruling autocracy. After the Revolution of 1917, however, many of these effectively complicit intellectuals left Russia for Western democracies. This book shows how this experience affected the lives of intellectuals who fled and transformed their scholarship. Archival materials and writings from the time reveal how scholarship can move from aspiration to reality, as it did for the Russian émigrés until the crash of 1929 and the rise of Nazism in Germany. But how is this relevant today? Because it shows how scholarship and science must be understood as part of history, and because it illustrates the power of hope. As studied and presented by émigrés from Tsarist totalitarianism, “Byzantium” came to be a multinational screen onto which scholars projected not only frustrations but also dreams.
Abstract (in Czech)
Pojem „Byzanc“ byl po staletí spojován s autokracií, totalitarismem a potlačováním svobody, a stal se tak oblíbeným přirovnáním k ruské autokracii.  V devatenáctém století ruští badatelé explicitně či implicitně schvalovali, či dokonce podporovali samoděržaví. Po revoluci roku 1917 však většina z nich opustila Rusko a usadila se v západních demokratických zemích. Kniha ukazuje, jak zkušenost exilu změnila životy uprchnuvších intelektuálů a proměnila jejich bádání i jejich pohled na Byzanc.
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GA18-20666S, research and development projectName: Kondakovovo dědictví, Byzance a emigrace (André Grabar a Seminarium Kondakovianum) (Acronym: HNK)
Investor: Czech Science Foundation
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