This study explores contemporary Russian memory politics, and analyzes the ideological underpinnings of the 2011 Moscow court verdict that criminalized a Ukrainian scholarly publication, accusing it of inciting ethnic, racial, national, social, and religious hatred. This accusation is examined in the context of Russia’s attempts to control the official historical narrative. Special attention is paid to the role of Russian cultural and democratic civic institutions, such as the Moscow library of Ukrainian literature and Memorial, in the micro-history of this publication. Deconstructing the judicial reaction of Russian lawmakers toward the Ukrainian publication, the study analyzes the Russian political elite’s attitudes toward the “Ukrainian” historical interpretations of Stalin’s terror and other aspects of common Soviet history, and demonstrates the interconnectedness of the preceding Soviet and modern Russian methods of control over education, history, and culture. Language and legislation play an important role in Russian memory politics that shape the popular historical imagination and camouflage the authoritarian methods of governing in Russia. The case of the Ukrainian publication is contextualized by examining the cult of chekism and the discursive significance of anti-Ukrainianism, salient elements in Russian memory politics that have transcended national borders.

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缺席审判：净化俄罗斯的国家历史叙事

这项研究探索了当代俄罗斯的记忆政治，并分析了2011年莫斯科法院判决的思想基础，该判决将乌克兰学术出版物定为刑事犯罪，指控该出版物煽动种族，种族，民族，社会和宗教仇恨。在俄罗斯试图控制官方历史叙述的背景下对这一指控进行了审查。在本出版物的微观历史中，应特别注意俄罗斯文化和民主公民机构的作用，例如莫斯科图书馆的乌克兰文学和纪念馆。该研究分析了俄罗斯议员对乌克兰出版物的司法反应，从而分析了俄罗斯政治精英对斯大林恐怖和其他共同苏维埃历史的“乌克兰”历史解释的态度，并展示了苏联和现代俄国以前的教育，历史和文化控制方法的相互联系。语言和立法在俄罗斯记忆政治中起着重要作用，塑造了流行的历史想象力，并伪装了俄罗斯的专制统治方式。乌克兰出版物的案例是通过考察化学狂热的崇拜和反乌克兰主义的话语意义来进行语境化的，反乌克兰主义是俄罗斯记忆政治中超越国界的重要要素。