H2020Индивидуална стипендия2022–2025

REVMUS · The historical-revolutionary museums of Petrograd-Leningrad, 1917–1941

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2022-06-16 → 2025-03-28
Финансиране от ЕС: 224 934 €
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Схема: MSCA-IF

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Накратко на български

Историческите музеи в Петроград и Ленинград (1917–1941) показват как са се формирали спомените за миналото, например чрез разликата между разказите на интелигенцията и тези на Сталин. Това помага да се разбере как обществото се справя с радикални политически промени и травми.

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The historical-revolutionary museums of Petrograd-Leningrad, 1917–1941

This project examined how historical-revolutionary museums in Petrograd–Leningrad (1917-41) shaped public memory of the nineteenth-century revolutionary movement and 1917 Revolution. Although scholars have scrutinized top-down management of revolutionary narratives by Bolshevik leaders, museums—key custodians of the recent past—have received far less attention. By foregrounding these institutions, the project offers a ground-level perspective on politically sensitive memory-making. A pressing, overlooked question is how far 'lower orders' and grassroots activists shaped official memory—whether ideology could rise from below. The project illuminates how post-revolutionary societies transform, Thermidor concept applicability, and contributes to ongoing debates on Stalinism. Understanding how politically sensitive and traumatic memories are constructed and institutionalized clarifies revolution mechanisms—rather than merely origins—and shows how societies navigate radical political change. It is especially central to current debates on the Socialist past in Central and Eastern Europe. The project had three main research objectives: To analyze agency behind the memory project established in historical revolutionary museums in 1917, showing how revolutionary intelligentsia used museums to institutionalize their collecive experience nor reducible to just Bolsheviks. To examine formation and evolution of competing memory projects about revolutionary history in Russia as presented in historical-revolutionary museums during the 1920s-1930s, tracking how Stalinist memory projects gradually replaced earlier narratives. To reconstruct symbolic and intellectual positions of historical-revolutionary museums in 1920-1930s Petrograd-Leningrad, and map the historical-revolutionary museum concept for the museum studies. For career development, the objective was integrating into the Oxford academic community to solidify my standing as historian by expanding publication portfolio and (re)mastering historical data techniques.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

This project will analyse the formation of memory about the nineteenth-century revolutionary movement in Russia and the 1917 Revolution in a group of historical-revolutionary museums in Petrograd-Leningrad between 1917 and 1941. The two decades after the October Revolution witnessed a transformation of the memory landscape, as Bolshevik leaders exploited the struggle to overthrow the old regime as an instrument of political legitimacy. The scholarship has dealt extensively with the management of the revolutionary narrative from the top; however, key institutions involved in the governance of the recent past, particularly, museums, remain understudied. This pioneering study of museums will provide a unique view of how memory was shaped on the ground. Petrograd-Leningrad is chosen for the analysis due to its status in the Soviet memory politics – that of ‘the city of three revolutions’ and ‘the city of Lenin’. The historical-revolutionary museums explored here include the House Museum for the Memory of Freedom Fighters, the State Museum of the Revolution – GMR, the Museum of Sergei Kirov, the Museum of Lenin in Leningrad, and a handful of smaller, short-lived museums such as the Museum of Komsomol and the Museum of the Army and the Fleet. While scholarship claims that the Soviet state was steady in imposing the ‘Bolshevik-centred’ memory project from 1917 on, I will show how a clash of seeming similar, yet different memory projects unfolded in all these museums. The House-Museum and the GMR operated with a broad concept of the ‘revolutionary movement’ that included all the antimonarchist political forces that had been active in the Russian Empire, not just the Bolsheviks. This project withered only in the early 1930s ceding way to the ‘Bolshevik-centred’ and then ‘Lenin/Stalin-centred’ ones that emphasized the role of the Communist party and mythologized figures of Lenin and Stalin in designing the 1917 revolution – to the detriment of all other participants.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

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