Russia’s Iconoclasms

Lachmann, Renate

Russia’s Iconoclasms

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2022

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Journal article

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European Review ; 30 (2022), S1. - pp. S126-S132. - Cambridge University Press. - ISSN 1062-7987. - eISSN 1474-0575

Abstract

Two iconoclasms took place in twentieth-century Russian history: the iconoclasm after the October revolution, and the iconoclasm after the breakdown of the Soviet Union. These two (ideologically opposite) phases of iconoclastic actions (dismantling, destruction) were incited by programmes concerning the abolition of tsarist monuments of 1918 and met by controversial reactions to the removal of the statues of the former Soviet politicians in the 1990s. The revolutionary demolition of the symbols of the imperial past was executed in accordance with a clear-cut plan and included the erection of new monuments for outstanding communist activists. The official aim of the post-soviet removal of these monuments, to delete traces of a problematic past, was confronted with a revitalized communist ideology on the one hand and with the reaction of the Human Rights Organization Memorial on the other, which criticized the insufficient demolition of soviet symbols. This multifaceted situation is complicated by the reconstruction of destroyed pre-revolutionary monuments of Russian (predominantly religious) history.

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800 Literature, Rhetoric, Literary Science

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LACHMANN, Renate, 2022. Russia’s Iconoclasms. In: European Review. Cambridge University Press. 30(S1), pp. S126-S132. ISSN 1062-7987. eISSN 1474-0575. Available under: doi: 10.1017/S1062798722000448

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@article{Lachmann2022-11-28Russi-59507,
  year={2022},
  doi={10.1017/S1062798722000448},
  title={Russia’s Iconoclasms},
  number={S1},
  volume={30},
  issn={1062-7987},
  journal={European Review},
  pages={S126--S132},
  author={Lachmann, Renate}
}

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