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Issue 1 (46)

FROM THE LATE SOVIET HISTORY OF THE DECEMBRIST MYTH
Year	2015	Number	1(46)
Pages	110-119	Type	scientific article
UDC	94(470) «18»	BBK	63.3(2)521.2
Authors	Erlich Sergey E.	Topic	RUSSIAN NOBILITY OF THE FIRST HALF OF THE 19TH CENTURY
Summary	The article shows how during the late Soviet period the Herzen's “rebellion metaphor” of the De-cembrists was impressed into the public mind under the cover of Lenin's ideas of "three genera-tions"; it is noted that through the efforts of certain nonconformist authors and philologists the “historical” narratives were filled with the topical hints, and that under the conditions of reaction to the Czechoslovak events of 1968 the rebellious myth of the Decembrists was complemented with a myth about their friends, who secretly sympathized with the noble cause of the 14 December rebels. The author drew a conclusion that it was to a large extent owing to these historical allusions that dozens of thousands of our compatriots dared to come to the square in front of the White House in August 1991.
Keywords	myth of the Decembrists, the end of Soviet era, historical allusions, protest rituals
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