Date Thesis Awarded
5-2022
Access Type
Honors Thesis -- Open Access
Degree Name
Bachelors of Arts (BA)
Department
Modern Languages and Literatures
Advisor
Alexander Prokhorov
Committee Members
Elena Prokhorova
Frederick Corney
Abstract
This thesis examines the uses of St. Alexander Nevsky’s iconography in the memory vehicles constructed during the reign of Vladimir Putin to legitimize his political regime. In particular, I am looking at a film invoking St. Alexander Nevsky produced during Putin’s early rule along with a monument dedicated to Nevsky unveiled on the eve of the war against Ukraine. I draw my theoretical framework from the works of Alon Confino, Nina Tumarkin, Stephen Norris, Scott Palmer, and Mariëlle Wijermars. Specifically, I am interested in how political leadership legitimates itself via such memory vehicles as film and monumental sculpture.
Recommended Citation
Prout, Caroline, "Constructing a Usable Past in Putin's Russia: St. Alexander Nevsky from Screen to Stone" (2022). Undergraduate Honors Theses. William & Mary. Paper 1767.
https://scholarworks.wm.edu/honorstheses/1767
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