TY - JOUR
T1 - Two archives of the Russian revolution
AU - Kaplan, Vera
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2020/12/1
Y1 - 2020/12/1
N2 - The article examines the role of historical archives in the commemoration of the Russian revolution of 1917. In particular, it focuses on two specific case studies: the attempts to create the Archive of the Revolution in Petrograd in spring–summer 1917 and the competing archival project, which evolved in “Russia Abroad,” among the Russian emigrants in Prague, in 1923. The declared aim of both projects was to collect documents for future historians, but they were far from being politically neutral. All the participants in these archival projects had their own vision of the revolution; as a result, the very act of collecting documents actually instigated the formation of various, and sometimes contradictory, narratives of the revolutionary events.
AB - The article examines the role of historical archives in the commemoration of the Russian revolution of 1917. In particular, it focuses on two specific case studies: the attempts to create the Archive of the Revolution in Petrograd in spring–summer 1917 and the competing archival project, which evolved in “Russia Abroad,” among the Russian emigrants in Prague, in 1923. The declared aim of both projects was to collect documents for future historians, but they were far from being politically neutral. All the participants in these archival projects had their own vision of the revolution; as a result, the very act of collecting documents actually instigated the formation of various, and sometimes contradictory, narratives of the revolutionary events.
KW - Archive of revolution
KW - Revolution of 1917
KW - Russia
KW - Russian Historical Archive Abroad
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85085895052&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s10502-020-09342-z
DO - 10.1007/s10502-020-09342-z
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AN - SCOPUS:85085895052
SN - 1389-0166
VL - 20
SP - 361
EP - 380
JO - Archival Science
JF - Archival Science
IS - 4
ER -