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„Rosja powstaje z kolan” – uwagi o polityce historycznej kremlowskiej elity

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dc.abstract.enThe author focuses in his reflections on the historical policy of the Russian Federation’s leadership. Activities in this area, evident since the early days of Putin’s rule, became particularly intense after Putin assumed the presidency again (2012), resulting in the establishment of a number of “social” institutions seeking to promote the official vision of history, in an attempt to interfere with school and university curricula, a campaign against “falsifiers of history” and repressive measures against organisations promoting a different interpretation of the country’s history (e.g. Memorial). Leading representatives of the Russian establishment became actively involved in creating the official vision of the past: in addition to the arbitrary Putin, parliament speakers, government ministers and even the heads of the atomic and intelligence agencies were keen to speak on historical issues as well. Prominence in this campaign was given to the propaganda of the idea of a “Russian world” (Russkiy mir), referring to the dogma of a “triune Russian nation” (including the Belarusians and the Ukrainians), actively supported by the Moscow Patriarchate, the appeal of which was strongly compromised only by the annexation of Crimea. In the article the author analyses Putin’s main historical statements, with a particular focus on his 2019–2022 speeches, characterised by undisguised resentment towards the West (including Poland) and hostility towards Ukraine. According to the author, from the historical point of view, Putin’s arguments are a mixture of contents taken from the sinister traditions of nineteenth-century Great Russian chauvinism, denying the Ukrainians the right to a national consciousness and language, and the views — fashionable in recent years among the Russian elite — whereby the national and state status of Ukraine is as young as it is artificial, as if it were an invention in the ideological sense of the last decades of the nineteenth century, and in the political sense — an artificial construct of the communist era, owing its existence solely to the leadership of the USSR. An analysis of the main publications and speeches of the Russian president clearly demonstrates the modest level of his own knowledge and the poor qualifications of his intellectual base. According to the author, history in the service of Putin’s propaganda has been reduced to a political instrument to be used on the tactical level, in the relatively short term, which corresponds well to the Kremlin elite’s perception of politics more as an ad hoc operational game than a subject of strategic planning.
dc.affiliationUniwersytet Warszawski
dc.contributor.authorGrala, Hieronim
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-25T19:28:22Z
dc.date.available2024-01-25T19:28:22Z
dc.date.copyright2023-02-03
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.accesstimeAT_PUBLICATION
dc.description.financeNie dotyczy
dc.description.number3
dc.description.versionFINAL_PUBLISHED
dc.description.volumeCXIII
dc.identifier.issn0033-2186
dc.identifier.urihttps://repozytorium.uw.edu.pl//handle/item/118772
dc.identifier.weblinkhttps://www.przegladhistoryczny.pl/sites/ph.ihuw.pl/files/ph/ph_3_grala.pdf
dc.languagepol
dc.pbn.affiliationhistory
dc.relation.ispartofPrzegląd Historyczny
dc.relation.pages545-581
dc.rightsOther
dc.sciencecloudnosend
dc.subject.enhistorical memory
dc.subject.enhistorical policy
dc.subject.enPutin
dc.subject.enRussia
dc.subject.enRussian imperialism
dc.subject.enUkraine
dc.subject.plimperializm rosyjski
dc.subject.plpamięć historyczna
dc.subject.plpolityka historyczna
dc.subject.plPutin
dc.subject.plRosja
dc.subject.plUkraina
dc.title„Rosja powstaje z kolan” – uwagi o polityce historycznej kremlowskiej elity
dc.typeJournalArticle
dspace.entity.typePublication