SUMMARY:
In his historiographic survey Igor’ Martyniuk focuses on one of the flourishing trends of historical studies in Post Soviet Russia, namely the history and myths of Russian ( rossiiskaia ) emigration after 1917. The author explores the psychological, cultural, and intellectual conditions of post Soviet transition under which the study of emigration boomed and continues to dominate the agenda of the historical profession. Martyniuk analyzes different aspects of historiography of Russian emigration, including the social, intellectual, and political history of émigrés, the study of migration regulations of host countries, the history of Russian and non Russian nationalisms abroad by comparing the state of art in Russian and non Russian (including Western European and American) historical literature. The author observes that the impact of political and intellectual climate emigration studies in post Soviet Russia resulted in a peculiar distribution of themes and interpretations as well as in a descriptive and bibliographic character of early works. The author concludes that the present state of emigrations studies is ripe for methodological innovations, synthetic works, and conceptual discussion on history of the Russian emigration.
SUMMARY:
The author surveys recent interpretations of the heritage of Nicholas Danilevsky and places them in the context of Danilevsky scholarship in Russia and abroad. The article explores Danilevsky’s thought in terms of its alleged affiliations with cultural relativism and anti-universalism, usually associated with the name of Oswald Spengler (whose ideas Danilevsky reportedly influenced) and in terms of positivist interpretations. Martyniuk also explores the revival and re-discovery of Danilevsky in post-Soviet scholarship and ideology, in particular (and exemplary) in Crimea, where the political situation made the re-appearance of Danilevsky specifically acute. Danilevsky and geopolitics is another subject of the article.
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