Decontextualization of History: Fantasmic Rebuilding of the Soviet Past

Ilya   Kalinin

Article Details

Decontextualization of History: Fantasmic Rebuilding of the Soviet Past

Authors:

Ilya Kalinin

Publisher:

KnE Social Sciences

Journal:

KnE Social Sciences Vol.4 Issue 13, pp.331-343

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

9/2020

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2001517969

pISSN:

2518-668X

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Abstract:

 This article is devoted to a specific case of identification with the Soviet past, when the latter is not given in mobile and individualized forms of a personal, family or social group memory, but in the canonized form of a socially recognized cultural representation. The article analyses different phenomena in contemporary mass culture (films and television series) and also considers the tendencies of official historical politics. Although contemporary post-Soviet nostalgia may be described as a secondary identification with the cinematic representation of one or another era the conceptual nostalgic framework through which post-Soviet society is often considered must be corrected. This article proposes the correction can be made via the following thesis: the modern Russian subject ( en masse ) is no longer nostalgic for the Soviet past, instead nostalgic identification is stylistically mediated by the characteristic modes of their representation in the cinema of the corresponding eras. We should talk about a kind of fantasmic identification, mediated by the specific modes of their cultural representation.

Article Details

Decontextualization of History: Fantasmic Rebuilding of the Soviet Past

Authors:

Ilya Kalinin

Publisher:

KnE Social Sciences

Journal:

KnE Social Sciences Vol.4 Issue 13, pp.331-343

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

9/2020

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2001517969

pISSN:

2518-668X

history

nostalgia

melancholia

soviet past

post-soviet subject

Issues

Article Details

Decontextualization of History: Fantasmic Rebuilding of the Soviet Past

Authors: Ilya Kalinin

Publisher: KnE Social Sciences

Journal: KnE Social Sciences Vol.4 Issue 13, pp.331-343

Document Type: Article

Publication Date: 9/2020

Document Language: English

Document ID (Org No.): 2001517969

pISSN: 2518-668X

history

nostalgia

melancholia

soviet past

post-soviet subject

Issues

Authors:

Ilya Kalinin

Publisher:

KnE Social Sciences

Journal:

KnE Social Sciences Vol.4 Issue 13, pp.331-343

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

9/2020

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2001517969

pISSN:

2518-668X