A. I. Prokofiev. Celebration of the 300th Anniversary of the Pereyaslav Rada in 1954: Discourses of historical memory about the beginning of the Thirteen Years War 1654–1667 // Petersburg historical journal, no. 2, 2022, pp. 34–47

Abstract:

In 1954, the USSR celebrated the 300th anniversary of the Pereyaslav Rada on the occasion
of the declared allegiance of the Zaporozhian Army to the Moscow state. The anniversary was given great importance not only in the artistical, but also in the scientific life of Soviet society. Cinema, painting, literature, history, pedagogy — everything seemed to serve the cause of uniting the Russian and Ukrainian peoples. Did the concept of “reunification of Ukraine with Russia” exist before 1954 in the Soviet historical language, or was a new tradition emerging before our eyes? Which discourses did Soviet historians present when speaking about the Rada and the beginning of the war between the Moscow state and the Commonwealth in 1654–1667?
The purpose of this study is to consider the language of describing the historical process in the scientific and artistical space.

Key words: Thirteen Years War, Pereyaslav Rada, ideologization of history, discourse, semiosis.

Author:

Prokofiev, Alexander — Post-graduate Student of the Centre for Social History of the Institute of History and Archaeology, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Yekaterinburg).
E-mail: al_prokofjew@mail.ru

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