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SUMMARY:Revolution and the Cult of the Leader - Prof Boris Kolonitskii\, E
 uropean University at St Petersburg\, St Petersburg Institute of History (
 Russian Academy of Sciences)
DTSTART:20180125T173000Z
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DESCRIPTION:How to govern revolutionary country if you don’t have real p
 olice force? If the army is democratized and the state monopoly of the gov
 ernment to create and enforced laws is challenged my numerous revolutionar
 y organizations? Russian Provisional government found itself in such situa
 tion. The personal authority of ministers became the main political resour
 ce.\n\nWhat patterns could be applied to politicians who execute power? Th
 at was a challenge for many citizens of new Russia after collapse of monar
 chy: many old symbols\, rituals and texts war rejected. It was necessary t
 o find new ways to address and describe new government.\n\nBoris Kolonitsk
 ii tries to study these processes. His research is devoted to representati
 ons of different political leaders of revolution\, and in his is case stud
 y he describes the cult of Alexander Fedorovich Kerensky – the most popu
 lar politician of the February revolution.\n\nHow Kerensky presented himse
 lf to the revolutionary country? How was he described by his supporters an
 d allies\, his opponents and enemies? How these different images of power 
 were perceived\, “translated” in different contexts? What was the impa
 ct of these cult over the political culture?\n\nProfessor Kolonitskii is o
 ne of the foremost scholars of the revolution. He is co-author of _Interpr
 eting the Russian Revolution: The Language and Symbols of 1917_ (Yale UP 1
 999) and a member of the board of the international project 'Russia’s Gr
 eat War and Revolution\, 1914-1922: The Centennial Reappraisal.’ 
LOCATION:Umney Theatre\, Robinson College
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