title: The Problem of Sustainability and Mutability of Values in Historical Toponymy
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metadata.value: Volodina, T. A.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2022-09-19T12:32:12Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2022-09-19T12:32:12Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2022-06
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Volodina T. A. ‘The Problem of Sustainability and Mutability of Values in Historical Toponymy’, Modern History of Russia, vol. 12, no. 2, 2022, pp. 491–502.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu24.2022.214
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/37809
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: This article analyzes the process of value transforming in the course of renaming various objects in
  recent Russian history (names of cities, streets, squares, etc.). This phenomenon is not unique to Russia. The author
  points out the significance of this problem in present works of Western scholars working in the interdisciplinary
  field of history, cultural anthropology, and geography. The article raises the question of the causes and limits
  of the sustainability and mutability of toponymic structures. Special attention is paid to the consideration of the
  competition between St Petersburg — Leningrad and Volgograd — Stalingrad in the public and power discourse.
  The author concludes that there are two semiotic layers in this process: the “text” as a phenomenon of “rewriting”
  meanings, i. e., the renaming properly, and a “palimpsest” that continues to exist in the public consciousness
  under a layer of written “text”. As a result of the analysis, the author concludes that there are deep limitations in
  the construction of the socio-cultural toponymic landscape. The relationship between the “text” and the “palimpsest”,
  according to the author, is determined by several factors. The sustainability of the “palimpsest” is directly
  proportional to the historical and event content that the “old name” managed to absorb during its existence. The
  intensity, effectiveness and success of writing a new “text” — all these points directly depend on the scale of changes in the social development as well as the degree of changes in the socio-cultural view of the world. The
  outcome of the competitive struggle between the meanings of “text” and “palimpsest” is ultimately a marker that
  demonstrates the degree and limits of society’s readiness to strengthen civil confrontation in the struggle for the
  values of the toponymic landscape.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Modern History of Russia;Volume 12; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: toponymy
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: renaming
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: collective memory
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: historical consciousness
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: indoctrination
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The Problem of Sustainability and Mutability of Values in Historical Toponymy
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.type
metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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