Medievalisms and Russia - The Contest for Imaginary Pasts

This study explores tropes concerned with the Middle Ages in Imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet Russia, seeking to explain why an often romanticized medieval past remains potent in Russian politics, society, and culture today.

About the author

Eugene Smelyansky ================= Eugene Smelyansky is a Teaching Assistant Professor of History at Washington State University, and has written on Russian medievalisms for The Public Medievalist.

Product details

• Authors: Eugene Smelyansky, Eugene (Washington State University) Smelyansky
• Publisher: Arc Humanities Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2024
• EAN: 9781802700640
• ISBN: 978-1-80270-064-0
• No. of pages: 136
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 236 mm x 12 mm
• Weight: 346 g
• Illustrations: 11 Illustrations, black and white
• Series: Arc Medievalist
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918