From the Time of Troubles to the Unity Day: Memory, Forgetting and Re-imaging the Past in Russian History
This article examines how the memory of one of the largest sociopolitical crises in the history of Russia (called the Time of Troubles) modified over 400 years. This process is considered as an example of rethinking the traumatic experience of the past and forming a national-patriotic myth on its...
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| description | This article examines how the memory of one of the largest sociopolitical crises in the history of Russia (called the Time of Troubles) modified
over 400 years. This process is considered as an example of rethinking the
traumatic experience of the past and forming a national-patriotic myth on its
basis. Several stages of the evolution of the memory of the Time of Troubles are
issued: the XVII century – when the interpretation of these events was mainly
religious; the XVIII century – when heroic and patriotic ideas about the time of
troubles were formed in accordance with the ideals of classicism; the XIX century
– the time of the development of the monarchical myth of the Romanov dynasty
coming to power; the XX century – when the peasant war and the struggle
against foreign intervention became the main dominant in the understanding of
events; Modern Russia and the annual celebration of the National Unity Day – a
public holiday established in 2005 in memory of the liberation of Moscow in
1612, the main idea of which is the unification of all peoples on the territory of
the Russian Federation. It is noted that for centuries in the cultural memory of
Russian society, two layers of ideas about the Time of Troubles coexisted. One of
them – negative – was the memory of social upheavals and civil war, the other –
positive – the memory of victory and overcoming the Troubles, evoking a sense
of national pride and hopes for the future. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-5d355949467646808f3f59b34e15e3ab2023-11-02T06:54:57ZengBucharest University PressUniversity of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series2734-59632021-12-01X/202018598From the Time of Troubles to the Unity Day: Memory, Forgetting and Re-imaging the Past in Russian HistoryVictoria Tkachenko0Faculty of History of Lomonosov Moscow State University; Russia.This article examines how the memory of one of the largest sociopolitical crises in the history of Russia (called the Time of Troubles) modified over 400 years. This process is considered as an example of rethinking the traumatic experience of the past and forming a national-patriotic myth on its basis. Several stages of the evolution of the memory of the Time of Troubles are issued: the XVII century – when the interpretation of these events was mainly religious; the XVIII century – when heroic and patriotic ideas about the time of troubles were formed in accordance with the ideals of classicism; the XIX century – the time of the development of the monarchical myth of the Romanov dynasty coming to power; the XX century – when the peasant war and the struggle against foreign intervention became the main dominant in the understanding of events; Modern Russia and the annual celebration of the National Unity Day – a public holiday established in 2005 in memory of the liberation of Moscow in 1612, the main idea of which is the unification of all peoples on the territory of the Russian Federation. It is noted that for centuries in the cultural memory of Russian society, two layers of ideas about the Time of Troubles coexisted. One of them – negative – was the memory of social upheavals and civil war, the other – positive – the memory of victory and overcoming the Troubles, evoking a sense of national pride and hopes for the future.https://ubr.rev.unibuc.ro/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/VictoriaTkachenko.pdfcultural memorytime of troublesmininpozharskykazan icon of the mother of godrevolution of 1917national unity day |
| spellingShingle | Victoria Tkachenko From the Time of Troubles to the Unity Day: Memory, Forgetting and Re-imaging the Past in Russian History University of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series cultural memory time of troubles minin pozharsky kazan icon of the mother of god revolution of 1917 national unity day |
| title | From the Time of Troubles to the Unity Day: Memory, Forgetting and Re-imaging the Past in Russian History |
| title_full | From the Time of Troubles to the Unity Day: Memory, Forgetting and Re-imaging the Past in Russian History |
| title_fullStr | From the Time of Troubles to the Unity Day: Memory, Forgetting and Re-imaging the Past in Russian History |
| title_full_unstemmed | From the Time of Troubles to the Unity Day: Memory, Forgetting and Re-imaging the Past in Russian History |
| title_short | From the Time of Troubles to the Unity Day: Memory, Forgetting and Re-imaging the Past in Russian History |
| title_sort | from the time of troubles to the unity day memory forgetting and re imaging the past in russian history |
| topic | cultural memory time of troubles minin pozharsky kazan icon of the mother of god revolution of 1917 national unity day |
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