title: Medieval Events and Heroes in Soviet Tear-Off Calendars
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metadata.value: Rostovtsev, E. A.
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metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Sosnitsky, D. A.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2017-10-28T16:52:39Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2017-10-28T16:52:39Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2017-09
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Rostovtsev E. A., Sosnitsky D. A. Medieval Events and Heroes in Soviet Tear-Off Calendars, Modern History of Russia, no. 3, 2017, pp. 163–181.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.identifier.other
metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu24.2017.312
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.uri
metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/8658
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The focus of the article is Soviet tear-off calendars (one of the most mass print publications of the
  20th century), which are regarded as sources of the formation of historical consciousness and instruments of
  the memory policy. The authors show that despite of origination of the tradition of publishing mass calendars in
  pre-revolutionary Russia, there are serious differences between the format of the pre-revolutionary calendars
  and Soviet ones. The Soviet tear-off calendar, unlike the calendars circulated before 1917, became rather a propaganda
  instrument than a reference tool, along with textbooks, Party literature and other products of ideological
  content. The main subject of research in the article are the events and heroes of the Russian Middle Ages, the
  interpretation of their images on tear-off pages. The authors compare tear-off calendars with other sources of formation of historical representations and put forward suggestions on the specific role of calendars in the system
  of Soviet historical policy. In particular, the article argues reasonably that the picture created by calendars is
  not likely to reflect (form) adequately a map of the memory of Soviet society. On the other hand, the data cited
  indicate that the Soviet calendars served as a significant strengthening in the public historical consciousness of
  places of consensus, primarily of the “military-patriotic” kind, that is, those places of memory that did not evoke
  the “ideological allergy” of authorities, such as the Battle of Kulikovo, Alexander Nevsky, the Battle of the Ice, the
  Battle of the Neva. The article shows that tear-off calendars is important source for studying the historical policy of
  the Soviet era, which the authorities surely tried to form not only (and not so much) in relation to the Middle Ages.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: Статья подготовлена при поддержке РНФ, проект «“Мобилизованное средневековье”:
  обращение к средневековым образам в дискурсах национального и государственного строительства в России и странах Центрально-Восточной Европы и Балкан в Новое и Новейшее время»,
  проект № 16-18-10080.
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;Issue 3(20)
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: historical memory
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: tear-off calendars
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Russian Middle Ages
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: pre-Petrine Russia
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: politics of memory
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: historical policy
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Medieval Events and Heroes in Soviet Tear-Off Calendars
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.type
metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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