CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2008
| Author | Kharitonova, Yelena Stanislavovna |
|---|---|
| Title | The Masonic theme in Russian historiography at the end of nineteenth-the middle of the twentieth centuries |
| Summary | The work considers the Russian historiography on the eighteenth-century Masonic issue from the beginning to the middle of the twentieth century which offers different interpretations of this theme. I will focus, mostly, on the works of representatives of liberal and nationalist-monarchist tendencies in the Russian historiography which most vividly represent both viewpoints on eighteenth-century Russian Freemasonry. This study will consider Catherine II’s reign as a context. In this framework it identifies the particular aims of the authors of liberal and nationalist-monarchist views in using different interpretations of the history of Russian Freemasonry and the activity of Novikov’s circle. In the same way it analyzes the range of questions that the representatives of different tendencies posed in their works. Both representatives of these tendencies had intention to create their own tradition and insisted that Russian Freemasons were the spiritual forerunners of the liberals in the country or had the explicit political goals that undermined the state basis. These authors, built their hypothesis on the Masonic issue and expressed their points of view, to an extent, influenced the public opinion of the Russian society. |
| Supervisor | Miller Alexei |
| Department | History MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2008/kharitonova_yelena.pdf |
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