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Filyushkin, Alexander Ilyich. “Mobilization of the Middle Ages” as an instrument of formation the discourse about Slavic unity

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“Mobilization of the Middle Ages” as an instrument of formation the discourse about Slavic unity
Authors Filyushkin, Alexander Ilyich — Professor, Doctor of Historical Sciences, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., OrcID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2456-7514, Scopus ID 55336577600, Researcher ID F-9139-2013, SPIN-код 1117-2468, AuthorID 202961
In the section DISPUTATIO / DISCUSSION
Year 2017 Issue 2 Pages 22-39
Type of article RAR Index UDK; BBK
BBK 63.3(2)5; UDK 94(47)+94(367)
 Index DOI 10.21638/11701/spbu19.2017.202
Abstract
The research was supported by the Russian Science Foundation, project 16-18-10080.
In the Middle Ages the theme of Slavic unity was not developed. It was discussed by intellectuals of that time in two directions: 1) the unity of origin; 2) unity of faith. In the Early New Time, in the period of the formation of the Slavic early modern nations, these ethnogenetic legends were connected with the history of local national herous, dominated over the discourse of the Slavic Unity. The idea of ​​Slavic unity gets explosive development in the late XVIII-XIX centuries. It was connected with the growth of the national liberation movement. The twentieth century with two world wars, two Balkan wars, a Soviet-Polish war, etc., when the Slavic peoples found themselves on different sides of the front, and a short period of existence of national states Eastern Europe (1918-1939) brought disunity to the Slavic world. About his imaginary unity only cultural memory remained. Then a brief outburst of the unification of the Slavs was associated with the Soviet project of the “belt” of socialist countries (or “cordon countries”, as it was called in the West), was kept at the will of the USSR and quickly ceased to exist with its disintegration in 1991. Medieval symbols and images in the 20th cent. worked more for national projects than on the idea of ​​Slavic integration. The 21th century brought the Slavic idea by postmodern deconstruction. The Slavic idea today has lost its positions and holds a secondary existence as an idea of ​​a cultural and shrinking memory of the past. 
Keywords ethnogenetic legends, Slavic unity, historical memory, historical policy
Full text version of the article. Article language Russain
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