The Historical Turn in Late Soviet Culture: Retrospectivism, Factography, Doubt, 1953–91*

Kozlov, Denis

doi:10.1353/kri.2008.0097

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“…In the post-Stalin context, the rehabilitation of the founding narrative of the Ukrainian SSR was a legitimization strategy. Indeed, this renewed interest in history can be understood as part of what Denis Kozlov (2001) has described as “the historical turn in late Soviet culture.” Communists from Pidhornyi and Shelest’s patronage network led this effort and placed Kharkiv at the center of the Soviet Ukrainian narrative of the October Revolution, referring to it as the cradle of Ukrainian statehood and the crucible of its Soviet culture. It is clear that the leadership was invested in this narrative.…”

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Rehabilitating a Mythology: The Ukrainian SSR’s Foundational Myth After Stalin

Dobczansky

2019

Nationalities Papers

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This article looks at the rehabilitation of the early history of the Communist Party of Ukraine and the Ukrainian SSR during the Thaw. It argues that the post-Stalin political moment offered the Ukrainian Party and academic establishments the opportunity to revalorize their republic’s founding narrative. In order to popularize this narrative, they produced publications on the revolution in Ukraine and early party history, rehabilitated Ukrainian Communists from the 1920s who had fallen victim to repressions, and constructed a set of monuments that embodied the new historical paradigm. These efforts aimed to de-Stalinize the country’s history as well as promote a Soviet Ukrainian patriotism that would make Ukrainians feel more integrated into the Soviet whole. Based on archival research, newspapers, and memoirs, the article suggests that rehabilitating this narrative was a strategy for the legitimization of the party within Ukraine.

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Rehabilitating a Mythology: The Ukrainian SSR’s Foundational Myth After Stalin

Dobczansky

2019

Nationalities Papers

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“…But there was also a much broader rehabilitation of the past, going well beyond popular custom to embrace, say, the daily life of nineteenth‐century manor houses or aristocratic salons in the cities. Scholarly articles, popular novels, costume dramas and the decoration of homes with real or reproduction historical artefacts all drew on the new ethos (Kelly ; Kelly ; Kozlov ; Vail' and Genis ). Alongside this, in 1965, came the founding of the All‐Russian Society for the Preservation of Monuments of History and Culture (VOOPIiK), with millions of members across the Russian Federation, and representation in all historic cities.…”

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The shock of the old: architectural preservation in Soviet Russia

Kelly

2017

Nations and Nationalism

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In Soviet sources from the Brezhnev era, the history of architectural preservation after 1917 was presented as a triumph of rational state‐building and cultural organisation: with the support of Lenin, the Bolshevik government had rapidly put in place effective measures to protect historic buildings for future generations. As this article shows, the evolution of legislative and practical measures was considerably more complicated than this optimistic representation would suggest. In the early Soviet period, a highly ideologised understanding of the past meant that preservationist ambitions might (especially during the ‘Great Break’ of 1928–1932) be seen as intrinsically reactionary. The canon of historical buildings was shaped by perceptions of centrality to Soviet values, as well as historical and aesthetic importance. The article also explores the transformation of attitudes to architectural heritage as a response to destruction by the invading forces during the ‘Great Patriotic War’, after which commitment to preservation became far more whole‐hearted, although enforcement and financial support continued to be inconsistent. The Soviet case indicates not just the importance of heritage preservation to the cultural ambitions and self‐image of the modern state but the limits of commitment to preservation and the pressure placed on this by the commitment to all‐out modernisation and to the propaganda of new identities and values.

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“…As the post-Stalin debate of the "Thaw" undermined the persuasiveness of earlier interpretations of history, many groups in Soviet society sought to legitimize their existence by constructing new historical continuities. 16 Although the search for continuity led to the selection, accumulation, and circulation of new data, these were meant to complement rather than revolutionize existing worldviews." 17 Digging for material traces and displaying material evidence became a matter of "the recovery of traces of national existence, traces lost, forgotten, censored or falsified."…”

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Architecture of Descent

Sezneva

2012

Journal of Urban History

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The focus of this article is on the relationship between history, identity, and architectural design in a city defined by dispossession and displacement. The former German Königsberg, today's Russian Kaliningrad, was annexed, repopulated, and rebuilt during the postwar Soviet period. The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 cast a critical light on this annexation, and problematized the belonging of the city to Russia by territorially cutting it off. Using two urban designs of historicized architecture that developed recently in the city, this article revisits the specific interface between urban history and the material forms that it takes. The against-the-grain case of Kaliningrad, where the relationship between people and the city demands constant reinterpretation, points to a distinct role that made-appear historical architecture sometimes plays, and demonstrates different selective and expressive processes that enable it. To make sense of the findings, the article develops a new subcategory within a more general notion "heritage": the architecture of descent. It is especially applicable in cases of disrupted urban development and repossession.

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The Historical Turn in Late Soviet Culture: Retrospectivism, Factography, Doubt, 1953–91*

Cited by 20 publications

References 23 publications

Rehabilitating a Mythology: The Ukrainian SSR’s Foundational Myth After Stalin

Rehabilitating a Mythology: The Ukrainian SSR’s Foundational Myth After Stalin

The shock of the old: architectural preservation in Soviet Russia

Architecture of Descent

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