Tatiana Voronina

University of Zurich | UZH · Historisches Seminar

The process of the Orthodoxization of memory in Russia started long before the Russian Orthodox Church engaged in memory politics. It was a grassroots process initiated by both the living and the dead. By using religious symbols and rituals, various groups of living were restoring their relationship with the forgotten dead of Soviet repressions and...

The process of the Orthodoxization of memory in Russia started long before the Russian Orthodox Church engaged in the memory politics. It was a grassrooted process initiated by both the living and the dead. By using religious symbols and rituals, various groups of living were restoring their relationship with the forgotten dead of Soviet repression...

In this article, the author examines how all-Union anniversaries during the 1960s–70s were used propagandistically to disseminate Soviet values as well as modern spatio-temporal ideas to rural communities. As part of the program to build communism, announced at the 22nd Congress of the Communist Party in 1961, anniversaries were employed to help mi...

This article examines the narrative structure of the minutes of party meetings of rural party organizations in Northwest Russia during the period of developed socialism. The meeting reproduced established discourse, teaching it to participants in the meeting, and at the same time, they were means of communications between the local society and the...

Existing analyses of the 1917 Russian Revolution centenary commemorations organised by the Russian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) present the Church as a monolithic institution and argue that its commemorations resulted from a political goal to become the leading expert in Russia’s politics of memory. In this contribution, we propose a more...

This article examines the narrative structure of the minutes of party meetings of rural party organizations in Northwest Russia during the period of developed socialism. The meeting reproduced established discourse, teaching it to participants in the meeting, and at the same time, they were means of communications between the local society and the...

В статье, основанной на анализе расположенных в Санкт-Петербурге архитектурно- мемориальных комплексов, посвященных блокаде Ленинграда, рассматривается процесс формирования и изменения исторической памяти об этом событии в го- родском пространстве. Автора интересует, каким образом светский язык художест- венной репрезентации блокады, созданный в го...

Что значит помнить «по-нашему»? Как мы привыкли говорить о блокаде Ленинграда? Что и почему вытесняется из памяти об этом событии, а что бытует в ней на правах самоочевидного, морально должного и эстетически допустимого? Книга Татьяны Ворониной посвящена репрезентации ленинградской блокады в советской культуре. Автор прослеживает, в каких формах эт...

В этой статье мы рассматриваем значение Соловецких островов для понимания па- мяти ГУЛАГа в России. За основу текста была взята программа, разработанная нами для международной российско-польской летней школы Центра польско-российско- го диалога и взаимопонимания и Центра независимых социологических исследова- ний. Эта летняя школа проходила в июле...

Voronina's article examines literary works treating the Siege written in the 1980s-90s as an important source for the formation of historical ideas in Russian society, and literature of this time period as a structure that functioned in accordance with a specific system of rules. The past, meanwhile, was used as a resource, while the literary canon...

This article is about how the memory of the Leningrad Blockade was articulated in different fields of cultural production like literature, history, law and official politics in the USSR during the post-war period and how these conceptualizations of history in turn influenced the survivors' understanding of the siege. My research focuses on survivor...

WardChristopher J. Brezhnev's Folly. The Building of BAM and Late Soviet Socialism. [Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies.]University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh2009. x, 218 pp. Maps. $50. (Paper: $ 24.95.) - Volume 56 Issue 2 - Tatiana Voronina

The number of victims of the Leningrad Blockade is not an objective source. It has political and ideological implications. At the Nuremburg trials, the Soviet Union spoke of 629,000 dead. In the narratives on the war, these people were transformed into heroes. Attempts on the part of academia to correct this number upward were dismissed by the regi...