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SUMMARY:[Historikertag 2021] Competing Memories of the Rus’: Places of Memory in the Early Modern Period
DESCRIPTION:Historical narratives play a major role for the definition of national identity, for the legitimization of statehood as well as for the selfpositioning of the post-soviet states in and in relation to Europe. Since the breakdown of the Soviet Union the histories of Ukraine, Belorus’ and – in connection with them – Russia have been subjected to a radical revision. These often highly politicized debates about the origins of statehood notwithstanding, serious research of identity building processes in the settlement areas of the eastern slaves which would take into account a multiplicity of perspectives still remains a desideratum. In order to enable a more rational debate about the origins of the respective statehoods it is necessary to study the creation of protonational mythologies during the Early modern period. Taking this into account the section will raise the following questions: Can we observe collective identity building processes well beyond the local level in the period from the end of the 15th up to the middle of the 18th century? Does it make sense to interpret the protonational mythologies of the eastern slaves within the overall context of a European Early modern type of natiogenese? In order to give an answer to these questions the section uses the concept of “lieux de memoire” (places of memory). The individual papers are focusing on the complex formative processes of different and often contradictory pantheons of the Rus’ during the Early modern period. Taking as examples the myth of the Babtism of the Rus’, the topos of “Moscow”, the historiographic synthesis of the Rus’ in the “Kievian Synopsis” as well as in the ethnogenealogical myth about the “prime fathers” (Prus, Rus, Palemon, Mosoch, Sarmat, Seruh, Chasares) they will discuss some of the most important “lieux de memoire” in the Belorussian, Ukrainian and Russian memory cultures as well as their potential counter-narratives.
Der Beitrag Competing Memories of the Rus’: Places of Memory in the Early Modern Period erschien zuerst auf Historikertag 2021.
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