B 2024

Russian Imperialism and the Medieval Past

FOLETTI, Ivan

Základní údaje

Originální název

Russian Imperialism and the Medieval Past

Autoři

Vydání

York, 118 s. Past Imperfect, 2024

Nakladatel

ARC Humanities Press

Další údaje

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"

Odkazy

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

ISBN

978-1-80270-238-5

DOI

Klíčová slova česky

Russian Imperialism; Art; Architecture; USSR; Scholarship; Napoleon; Putin; Stalin

Klíčová slova anglicky

Russian Imperialism; Art; Architecture; USSR; Scholarship; Napoleon; Putin; Stalin

Anotace

V originále

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?