Allegorie della libertà e tipologie del sacro nell'iconografia rivoluzionaria russa

Journal title PASSATO E PRESENTE
Author/s Dogo Dunja
Publishing Year 2012 Issue 2012/85
Language Italian Pages 24 P. 57-80 File size 2151 KB
DOI 10.3280/PASS2012-085004
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Allegories of liberty and typologies of the sacred in the iconography of revolutionary Russia. Revolutionary iconography addresses a topic that crosses the field of studies of the Russian Revolution, whose scope in the past two decades has begun to investigate the cultural history of 1917, thanks to easier access to source materials that have re-emerged after the opening of the Russian archives. Above all, the essay attempts to reconstruct how three particular typologies (St. George, the Angel, Liberty) came into use in the Russian revolutionary symbolic system and underwent a metamorphosis, contributing to a phenomenon of syncretism. Such discourses can show how different political subjects – at times on opposing sides - employed a common imagery within a struggle for the conquest of the symbol.

Keywords: Russian revolution, syncretism, political symbology, first anniversary of 1917, Bolshevik iconography.

Dogo Dunja, Allegorie della libertà e tipologie del sacro nell'iconografia rivoluzionaria russa in "PASSATO E PRESENTE" 85/2012, pp 57-80, DOI: 10.3280/PASS2012-085004