CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2024
| Author | SERHIY BUTKO |
|---|---|
| Title | From Fringe Ideology to Official Historiography: The Historical-Revisionist Concept of Novorossiya as a Tool to Promote Right-Wing Ideas in Russian Intellectual Discourse |
| Summary | This thesis contributes to the literature on Russian right-wing intellectuals, Russian academic historical writing and organizations and platforms that help to establish connections between them. It addresses two main questions: 1) How the concept of Novorossiya was developed and explored by the Russian ultranationalist authors of the Zavtra weekly journal? 2) What form did the concept of Novorossiya take after being incorporated by the collective work by the Russian Academy of Sciences titled “History of Novorossiya”? The thesis finds out that right-wing intellectuals who shared anti-Ukrainian views appropriated the concept of Novorossiya and turned it into a vehicle for their other views that were not complimentary to the Russian state, including questions of social justice, ethnonationalism and anti-capitalism, and also an image of a perfect New Russia, riddled with an eclectic mix of Stalinist reminiscences with an Orthodox revivalism. While almost all of these sentiments were not explicitly expressed in the “History of Novorossiya”, they remained implicitly present in the text produced by the Russian Academy of Sciences, solidifying the historical revisionist Novorossiya concept as a part of an established historiography. |
| Supervisor | Charles Shaw |
| Department | History MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2024/butko_sergii.pdf |
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