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Russian Imperial Space of Power in the First Post-Revolution Decade (1917 – Late 1920s)

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  • Ekaterina Boltunova

    (National Research University Higher School of Economics)

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This article explores how Bolshevik/Soviet authorities took on and adapted the Russian imperial topography of power i.e. the system of special structures that intended to convey state ideology (monuments to tsars and statesmen, emperors’ residences with their various ceremonial spaces, administrative buildings, and those museums which play a role in power representation). The research traces the changing attitudes to the Russian Empire’s space of power in 1917 – late 1920s that varied from destructing such spatial objects to adapting them to the objectives of propaganda. It argues that with the time being appropriation strategies (renaming, recoding, creating of revolutionary memorials etc.) appeared to have better prospects than straightforward disavowal or destruction. The imperial space of power provided some opportunities to propagate novel and/or universal connotations of power and gradually was found relevant for the needs of the Soviet regime

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  • Ekaterina Boltunova, 2016. "Russian Imperial Space of Power in the First Post-Revolution Decade (1917 – Late 1920s)," HSE Working papers WP BRP 126/HUM/2016, National Research University Higher School of Economics.
    • Handle: RePEc:hig:wpaper:126hum2016
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    Keywords

    Discourse of Power; Topography; Cultural Heritage; Moscow Kremlin; Winter Palace (Hermitage);
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    • N94 - Economic History - - Regional and Urban History - - - Europe: 1913-

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