title: Image Studies in Examining Shared Perceptions of the Past: Two Russian Cases
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metadata.value: Parppei, Kati Mari Johanna
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2020-03-18T13:22:27Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2020-03-18T13:22:27Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2019-12
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metadata.value: Parppei K. M. J. Image Studies in Examining Shared Perceptions of the Past: Two Russian Cases. Studia Slavica et Balcanica Petropolitana, 2019, vol. 2 (26), pp. 15–36.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu19.2019.202
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/17196
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: Historical image studies have been used successfully in analysing, for instance, representations
  of «otherness». Despite of its certain restrictions, the approach can also be used in studying phenomena that
  are more complex. In this article, two recent case studies, both concerning Russian historiography and the
  formation of national narratives, are shortly discussed in order to ponder upon the applicability of the method
  in examining collective perceptions of the past. The first case is about the formation of the historiographical
  image of the borderland monastery of Valaam. The second one examines the development of the collective
  ideas concerning the battle of Kulikovo (1380). It can be said that in the image formation of Valaam, the
  emphasis is on spatiality, religion and contested frontier, whilst in the case of Kulikovo imagery, the ideas
  of temporality, national significance and active, unified resistance prevail. What is common for both case
  studies, however, is that the formation of the imagery has been intertwined with contemporary political
  issues of each given time. The process has had a full support of the power structures. Also, there is strong
  undercurrent of National Romanticist thinking connected to both of the cases. Both of the imageries have
  been formed anachronistically, in hindsight. Especially in the case of Kulikovo this phenomenon has a central
  role: the idea of the medieval battle as a crucial turning point is a prime example of explaining history in the
  light of contemporary knowledge and the prevailing ideological undercurrents. In both cases it is possible
  to analyze and trace the formation of separate images of certain scenes, turns and figures, and on the other
  hand, examine them as a whole imagery.
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metadata.value: The article was written under the Academy Research Fellow funding granted by the Academy of Finland.
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metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Studia Slavica et Balcanica Petropolitana;Volume 2 (26)
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: image
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: historiography
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: nationalism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: identities
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: myths
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: narratives
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Image Studies in Examining Shared Perceptions of the Past: Two Russian Cases
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metadata.value: Article
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