The Comprehension of the Russian Civil War in the Context of Two Anniversaries
| Autor: | Olga Sergeevna Porshneva, Mikhail Arkadyevich Feldman |
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| Jazyk: | ruština |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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| Zdroj: | Известия Уральского федерального университета. Серия 2: Гуманитарные науки, Vol 20, Iss 3(178), Pp 9-26 (2018) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 2227-2283 2587-6929 |
| DOI: | 10.15826/izv2.2018.20.3.042 |
| Popis: | This article examines the influence of the anniversaries of World War I and the Russian Revolution of 1917 on the historical interpretation of the phenomenon of the Russian Civil War. The authors demonstrate that the 100th anniversaries of these milestone events revitalised public and professional discussions at conferences, in monographs, and collections of articles. The authors maintain that the dominating tendency in world historiography is an attempt to “insert” the period of the Civil War into a longer process of the all-European military and revolutionary crisis of 1914–1922 with reference to its causes, development, characteristics, and specific Russian features. The anniversary events and publications of non-Russian and Russian historiography testify to the interest in the studies of war, culture, and symbolic space of the military and revolutionary epoch, social practices and wartime institutions, and issues connected with historical memory. Studies focusing on people’s emotions and individual experience during the military and revolutionary crisis resumed, which meant that historical studies were enriched by memoirs. Together with this, anniversary events added to a tendency in Russian historiography where the Civil War was considered in the context of the Soviet project. Such studies focus on elements of succession and institutional changes, utopian components of the Bolshevist strategy, practices and mechanisms underlying the construction of a new reality, which were consolidated during the Civil War and had a formatting effect on the Soviet system. The anniversary events demonstrated the main tendencies in the transformations of the historians’ memory of the epoch it underwent under the influence of scholarly and social demand. |
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