FOLETTI, Ivan. Russian Imperialism and the Medieval Past. York: ARC Humanities Press, 2024, 118 s. Past Imperfect. ISBN 978-1-80270-238-5. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781802702385.
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Základní údaje
Originální název Russian Imperialism and the Medieval Past
Autoři FOLETTI, Ivan.
Vydání York, 118 s. Past Imperfect, 2024.
Nakladatel ARC Humanities Press
Další údaje
Originální jazyk angličtina
Typ výsledku Odborná kniha
Obor 60401 Arts, Art history
Stát vydavatele Velká Británie a Severní Irsko
Utajení není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
Forma vydání tištěná verze "print"
WWW URL
Organizační jednotka Filozofická fakulta
ISBN 978-1-80270-238-5
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781802702385
Klíčová slova česky Russian Imperialism; Art; Architecture; USSR; Scholarship; Napoleon; Putin; Stalin
Klíčová slova anglicky Russian Imperialism; Art; Architecture; USSR; Scholarship; Napoleon; Putin; Stalin
Změnil Změnil: prof. Ivan Foletti, MA, Docteur es Lettres, Docent in Church History, učo 115455. Změněno: 24. 6. 2024 11:50.
Anotace
Vladimir Putin justifies his imperialist policy by use of the past. For him, Russia has always been an Empire and must remain so. The story of Russian imperialism has deep historical roots, and this book shows how Byzantium, the most powerful medieval and Christian empire, is repeatedly presented in Russian history as the source of the empire's imperial legitimacy. The author reflects on the role of art and the humanities (especially history and art history) within the power ambitions of regimes and political parties over the last two centuries as tools for the repeated reinvention of an empire's identity; an identity built on a multitude of invented pasts. Within this self-referential narrative, Byzantium becomes the ultimate authority justifying the aggression of the Russian state, and Orthodox belief becomes the bridge linking the medieval past with the present. One of the paradoxes of this narrative is the use of the same past by regimes as different as those of the last Romanovs, Stalin, and Putin, leading to a fundamental question: does this propaganda image really underlie the core identity of Russia?
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