title: The experience of creating a new concept of state in Russian history
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metadata.value: Szvák, Gyula
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2018-01-24T12:16:02Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2018-01-24T12:16:02Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2017-12
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Szvák G. The experience of creating a new concept of state in Russian history. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2017, vol. 62, issue 4, pp. 897–909.
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu02.2017.415
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/8925
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: It would be too early to try and summarize the way in which the issue of Russia’s “state historical and
  remembrance policy” has evolved, or its possible outcomes, as the unified set of schoolbooks has not
  yet been produced. The result of competitions in mass media as presented in this essay however clearly demonstrate the national, social climate and its trends, which would have to be moulded into some
  form of an “all-Russian socium” by such a new approach to history. The author of this article analyzes
  not only the polemic around textbooks, but also the competition “The Name is Russia”: “a strange
  competition among Russian historical figures”. Some intentions to find the symbols of Russia also are
  a subject of interest in this article. An important conclusion is that the State interfered in these discussions,
  but avoided some power decisions. As contemporaries we might curiously await the next round
  of the “identity battle”, but as historians we must give voice to scepticism in regard to hopes of any form
  of quick success. Yet most of all, we have to take a stance from the deep conviction that only a pluralistic
  approach to history based on free research and the freedom to present freely conceived alternatives
  can help in the crystallization of a realistic national self-image. The author concludes his article with
  mention of an alarming signal in the erection of a monument to Ivan the Terrible in Russian town Orel
  last year. This “hero” had not found his place on the famous monument of Russian’s Millennium which
  was erected in Great Novgorod in 1862. And now he appears in Russian cities… Refs 11.
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: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 62; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Russia
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: history
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: historical memory
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: identity
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The experience of creating a new concept of state in Russian history
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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