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Constructing a Usable Past in Putin's Russia: St. Alexander Nevsky from Screen to Stone

Prout, Caroline
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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.
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2022-05-01
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Prokhorov, Alexander
Prokhorova, Elena
Corney, Frederick
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Modern Languages and Literatures
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