| Titre | Médiatisation et théâtralisation des origines russes sous la Grande Catherine | |
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| Auteur | Nicolas Plagne | |
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Revue | Revue des Etudes Slaves |
| Numéro | Vol. 81, no 4, 2010 | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Articles |
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| Page | 425-450 | |
| Résumé anglais |
The Question of the Origins of Russia in the Age of Catherine the Great : Mediatization and Dramatization Is History in the Service of Imperial Ideology?
During the reign of Catherine the Great, the question of the origins of the Russian State and people (‘the Varagian-Norman question') becomes a matter of wide discussion in Russia and in Europe. It has been a very controversial topic in the Russian Academy of Sciences and the occasion of a violent polemic between historians around 1749-50. It has long been kept secret because of the possible dangerous political consequences for the Monarchy and the national pride. The political power wanted by all means to give its subjects a glorious national history but at the same time to control the story of the origins, the ethnic aspects and possible liberal, parliamentary or democratic interpretations of the beginnings of the Russian State. While western historians (German, French and English) gave their accounts of this founding event to the Enlightened Europe, making this story widespread in the West, Catherine made ancient Russian history part of the new modern national education of the elites. She was writing plays herself and patronizing artists and printers, censuring them occasionally : she tried to orient collective memory and used it as an ideological tool to create a unified empire under her lead. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | https://www.persee.fr/doc/slave_0080-2557_2010_num_81_4_7980 |
