В статье, посвященной столетию проф. Е.В. Гутновой, рассматривается ее вклад в изучение историогр... more В статье, посвященной столетию проф. Е.В. Гутновой, рассматривается ее вклад в изучение историографии истории Средних веков в свете работ ее предшественников, а также тех изменений, которые произошли в современной исторической науке. Автор выделяет некоторые общие моменты, разделяемые историей историографии с постулатами историографии науки (history of science). В предметное поле включаются формы и результаты творческой деятельности как «великих ученых», так и менее известных исследователей; особое внимание, наряду с анализом исторических идей, концепций и методов, уделяется анализу текстов, языка историков, типов дискурса и т.п.; важная роль отводится раскрытию контекстов, задающих условия научной деятельности. Автор статьи обращает внимание на особенности подхода Е.В. Гутновой, отмечая ряд новаций, имевших целью комплексное изучение истории исторической науки, несводимое ни к описанию работ, концепций, исследовательских методов или творческих биографий, ни к эволюции господствовав...
Postmodernist criticism has focused sharply on the epistemological problems that accumulated in h... more Postmodernist criticism has focused sharply on the epistemological problems that accumulated in historical scholarship during the last third of the twentieth century, leading to a new understanding of the tasks at hand and to qualitative changes in the choice of subjects, conceptual apparatus, and methodological underpinnings of historical research. Although devising a new paradigm for history proved to be a complex and contradictory process, the one thing that was certain at the beginning of the new century was that the more encouraging prospects emphasized the category of culture. This trend indicates the emergence of a new direction in historical scholarship, which has been called either the new cultural history or historical culture studies. The shift toward culture studies at the turn of both a century and a millennium is linked to the cultural turn in intellectual history, earlier defined solely as historiography. As a result, the sphere of interest of
Lorina Repina, known not only as a specialist in British history, but also as a founder and perma... more Lorina Repina, known not only as a specialist in British history, but also as a founder and permanent leader of the Russian Society for Intellectual History, talks about her path to historical studies, projects in the field of studying intellectual history, and shares her creative ideas.
The paper analyzes the main trends and special features of theoretical and concrete historical me... more The paper analyzes the main trends and special features of theoretical and concrete historical memory studies in the current Russian historiography. The formation of the transdisciplinary memorial paradigm and history of memory in Russia is considered in the context of methodological turns and epistemological innovations of the late 20th – early 21st cc. Special attention is paid to the studies of cultural mechanisms of formation, translation and actualization of the images of the past, problems of symbolical and discourse representation of social and historical experience, historical myths of national memory and history of historical culture.
The Past in the Matrix of Memory and Traditions of Historical Writing / ПРОШЛОЕ В МАТРИЦЕ ПАМЯТИ И ТРАДИЦИЯХ ИСТОРИОПИСАНИЯ / , 2021
The "cultural turn" in social and humanitarian knowledge has led to an inten-sive development of ... more The "cultural turn" in social and humanitarian knowledge has led to an inten-sive development of various aspects of the problem of collective representa-tions of the past. Today historians are actively interested in how people per-ceived events of which they were contemporaries or participants, how they stored and broadcast information about these events. Historical memory is an integral part of the culture of any human society. The idea of a common past, being an embodiment of a system of values shared by the community, repre-sented by historical events, heroes, memorable places, act as one of the most important means of creating and maintaining internal unity. The article dis-cusses various interpretations of the phenomenon of memory and historical consciousness. The main attention is paid to the concept of images of the past, with the help of which society forms and maintains its identity through various mechanisms of memorialization and historization of events in public con-sciousness and reconstruction of the “common past”, each time proceeding from the needs of the present in the relevant perspective. In recent decades, re-search has made significant progress on the complex phenomenon of historical culture, which acts not only as an articulation of the historical consciousness of society or a set of cultural practices of individuals and groups in relation to the past but includes all cases of the presence of the past in everyday life. Chang-ing ideas about the past is inextricably linked with the processes of accumula-tion and comprehension of new social experience, the experience of experienc-ing events that are constantly happening in history. The idea of which event is historical has changed significantly, also because historians have paid attention to the question of the relationship between social memory and the traditions of historical writing, as well as to the place of collective memory in the historian's subjectivity. Speaking equally against the identification of history and memory, and against the absolutization of their differences, the author propos-es to turn to a comprehensive analysis of the rational, mental and emotional components of this or that "image of the past" and their correlation at different levels of its formation.
Studia Slavica et Balcanica Petropolitana / Петербургские славянские и балканские исследования, 2022
Over the past half century, historical science has experienced a series of “turns”, enriched with... more Over the past half century, historical science has experienced a series of “turns”, enriched with new approaches, which has led to qualitative changes in the subject field and research issues, in the structure of historical knowledge, in the practices of historical writing and professional self-awareness of historians. In this context, actual historiographic studies acquires a new status. At the heart of professional historical culture, a special type of collective memory is found, with characteristic values (primarily the requirement of reliability) and means of communication, both within one's own community and with society as a whole and with representatives of another culture. We are talking about an attempt to analyze and comprehend the specific features of historiographic texts created in different chronotopes in the conditions of intense contacts and confrontation between emerging and mutually affirmed national and cultural identities. On the other hand, as a result of the so-called spatial turn, the most striking manifestation of which was the formation of interdisciplinary research fields of global, new world and new regional history, the focus of researchers was communication processes covering the development of relationships in the world over the past half millennium. Such a history appears today not only as a set of empirical studies that overcome the limited horizons of individual national-state histories, but also as a fan of differently defined macrohistorical approaches – as transnational history, histoire croisée, connected history, etc. The focus of transnational research is complex multicultural formations or various forms of other cultural communities that are in more or less close relationships. The main thing in this strategy of studying two or more related objects belonging to different cultures is to take into account the subjectivity and activity of all aspects of interaction. It also raises the question of overcoming latent exclusivity in the current intercultural discourse and the possibility of a new integrating conception, capable of covering the history of mankind, taking into account the differences in cultural traditions and ways of historical thinking.
В статье, посвященной столетию проф. Е.В. Гутновой, рассматривается ее вклад в изучение историогр... more В статье, посвященной столетию проф. Е.В. Гутновой, рассматривается ее вклад в изучение историографии истории Средних веков в свете работ ее предшественников, а также тех изменений, которые произошли в современной исторической науке. Автор выделяет некоторые общие моменты, разделяемые историей историографии с постулатами историографии науки (history of science). В предметное поле включаются формы и результаты творческой деятельности как «великих ученых», так и менее известных исследователей; особое внимание, наряду с анализом исторических идей, концепций и методов, уделяется анализу текстов, языка историков, типов дискурса и т.п.; важная роль отводится раскрытию контекстов, задающих условия научной деятельности. Автор статьи обращает внимание на особенности подхода Е.В. Гутновой, отмечая ряд новаций, имевших целью комплексное изучение истории исторической науки, несводимое ни к описанию работ, концепций, исследовательских методов или творческих биографий, ни к эволюции господствовав...
Postmodernist criticism has focused sharply on the epistemological problems that accumulated in h... more Postmodernist criticism has focused sharply on the epistemological problems that accumulated in historical scholarship during the last third of the twentieth century, leading to a new understanding of the tasks at hand and to qualitative changes in the choice of subjects, conceptual apparatus, and methodological underpinnings of historical research. Although devising a new paradigm for history proved to be a complex and contradictory process, the one thing that was certain at the beginning of the new century was that the more encouraging prospects emphasized the category of culture. This trend indicates the emergence of a new direction in historical scholarship, which has been called either the new cultural history or historical culture studies. The shift toward culture studies at the turn of both a century and a millennium is linked to the cultural turn in intellectual history, earlier defined solely as historiography. As a result, the sphere of interest of
Lorina Repina, known not only as a specialist in British history, but also as a founder and perma... more Lorina Repina, known not only as a specialist in British history, but also as a founder and permanent leader of the Russian Society for Intellectual History, talks about her path to historical studies, projects in the field of studying intellectual history, and shares her creative ideas.
The paper analyzes the main trends and special features of theoretical and concrete historical me... more The paper analyzes the main trends and special features of theoretical and concrete historical memory studies in the current Russian historiography. The formation of the transdisciplinary memorial paradigm and history of memory in Russia is considered in the context of methodological turns and epistemological innovations of the late 20th – early 21st cc. Special attention is paid to the studies of cultural mechanisms of formation, translation and actualization of the images of the past, problems of symbolical and discourse representation of social and historical experience, historical myths of national memory and history of historical culture.
The Past in the Matrix of Memory and Traditions of Historical Writing / ПРОШЛОЕ В МАТРИЦЕ ПАМЯТИ И ТРАДИЦИЯХ ИСТОРИОПИСАНИЯ / , 2021
The "cultural turn" in social and humanitarian knowledge has led to an inten-sive development of ... more The "cultural turn" in social and humanitarian knowledge has led to an inten-sive development of various aspects of the problem of collective representa-tions of the past. Today historians are actively interested in how people per-ceived events of which they were contemporaries or participants, how they stored and broadcast information about these events. Historical memory is an integral part of the culture of any human society. The idea of a common past, being an embodiment of a system of values shared by the community, repre-sented by historical events, heroes, memorable places, act as one of the most important means of creating and maintaining internal unity. The article dis-cusses various interpretations of the phenomenon of memory and historical consciousness. The main attention is paid to the concept of images of the past, with the help of which society forms and maintains its identity through various mechanisms of memorialization and historization of events in public con-sciousness and reconstruction of the “common past”, each time proceeding from the needs of the present in the relevant perspective. In recent decades, re-search has made significant progress on the complex phenomenon of historical culture, which acts not only as an articulation of the historical consciousness of society or a set of cultural practices of individuals and groups in relation to the past but includes all cases of the presence of the past in everyday life. Chang-ing ideas about the past is inextricably linked with the processes of accumula-tion and comprehension of new social experience, the experience of experienc-ing events that are constantly happening in history. The idea of which event is historical has changed significantly, also because historians have paid attention to the question of the relationship between social memory and the traditions of historical writing, as well as to the place of collective memory in the historian's subjectivity. Speaking equally against the identification of history and memory, and against the absolutization of their differences, the author propos-es to turn to a comprehensive analysis of the rational, mental and emotional components of this or that "image of the past" and their correlation at different levels of its formation.
Studia Slavica et Balcanica Petropolitana / Петербургские славянские и балканские исследования, 2022
Over the past half century, historical science has experienced a series of “turns”, enriched with... more Over the past half century, historical science has experienced a series of “turns”, enriched with new approaches, which has led to qualitative changes in the subject field and research issues, in the structure of historical knowledge, in the practices of historical writing and professional self-awareness of historians. In this context, actual historiographic studies acquires a new status. At the heart of professional historical culture, a special type of collective memory is found, with characteristic values (primarily the requirement of reliability) and means of communication, both within one's own community and with society as a whole and with representatives of another culture. We are talking about an attempt to analyze and comprehend the specific features of historiographic texts created in different chronotopes in the conditions of intense contacts and confrontation between emerging and mutually affirmed national and cultural identities. On the other hand, as a result of the so-called spatial turn, the most striking manifestation of which was the formation of interdisciplinary research fields of global, new world and new regional history, the focus of researchers was communication processes covering the development of relationships in the world over the past half millennium. Such a history appears today not only as a set of empirical studies that overcome the limited horizons of individual national-state histories, but also as a fan of differently defined macrohistorical approaches – as transnational history, histoire croisée, connected history, etc. The focus of transnational research is complex multicultural formations or various forms of other cultural communities that are in more or less close relationships. The main thing in this strategy of studying two or more related objects belonging to different cultures is to take into account the subjectivity and activity of all aspects of interaction. It also raises the question of overcoming latent exclusivity in the current intercultural discourse and the possibility of a new integrating conception, capable of covering the history of mankind, taking into account the differences in cultural traditions and ways of historical thinking.
The role of intellectuals in the conflicts of critical eras is the subject of
both the history of... more The role of intellectuals in the conflicts of critical eras is the subject of both the history of ideas and intellectual culture, and socio-political history. Many of the major social conflicts at every fork in the history of different countries would not have been possible without the critical, creative and social activity of intellectuals. The authors of the monograph focused their efforts on the problems of interaction between intellectuals and authorities (both cooperation and confrontation). The book presents the results of developing important aspects of the topic based on the history of Russia (in different periods) and individual European countries with different trajectories of development, the formation of public consciousness and political culture, in the context of competition between projects for the future and different forms of identity (regional, ethnic, confessional, party, etc.).
Коллективная монография посвящена исследованию когнитивно-риторических стратегий выдающихся брита... more Коллективная монография посвящена исследованию когнитивно-риторических стратегий выдающихся британских и русских интеллектуа-лов в ситуации системного кризиса «переходной эпохи» и формирования культурной/национальной/имперской идентичностей в Британии и России XVII–XVIII вв. На основе историко-компаративного анализа культурного кода формирующихся британской и русской идентичностей на материале полемических трудов, проповедей и травелогов XVII–XVIII вв. рассматривается общее и особенное в практиках и механизмах влияния интеллектуалов на власть и общество в Британии и России в ситуации распада универсальной картины мира и формирования новых представлений о чело-веке, обществе и государстве. / The collective monograph is devoted to the study of cognitive-rhetorical strategies of prominent British and Russian intellectuals in a situation of systemic crisis during the "Transition Era" and the formation of cultural/national/Imperial identities in Britain and Russia in the 17th and the 18th cс. On the base of the historical and comparative analysis of the cultural code of the emerging British and Russian identities basing on historical materials – polemical texts, texts of sermons and travelogues of the 17th and the 18th cс. – deals with the common and specific in the practices and mechanisms of impact of various groups of intellectuals on power and society in Britain and Russia in the situation of the disintegration of the Universalist image of the world and the formation of new ideas on the human, the society and the state.
The collective monograph is devoted to the study of cognitive-rhetorical
strategies of prominent ... more The collective monograph is devoted to the study of cognitive-rhetorical strategies of prominent British and Russian intellectuals in a situation of systemic crisis during the “Transition Era” and the formation of cultural/national/Imperial identities in Britain and Russia in the 17th and the 18th c. On the base of the historical and comparative analysis of the cultural code of the emerging British and Russian identities basing on historical materials — polemical texts, texts of sermons and travelogues of the 17th and the 18th c.—deals with the common and specific in the practices and mechanisms of impact of various groups of intellectuals on power and society in Britain and Russia in the situation of the disintegration of the Universalist image of the world and the formation of new ideas on the human, the society and the state.
Прошлое для настоящего. История-память и нарративы национальной идентичности. Коллективная монография. М.: Аквилон, 2020. Отв. ред. Л.П. Репина. С. 37-71., 2020
В главе прослеживается изменение форм самосознания в России в досоветский период, с начала XIX в.... more В главе прослеживается изменение форм самосознания в России в досоветский период, с начала XIX в. по 1917 г.
Прошлое для настоящего. История-память и нарративы национальной идентичности. Коллективная монография. М.: Аквилон, 2020. Отв. ред. Л.П. Репина. Глава 3 ИМПЕРСКИЕ, ЦИВИЛИЗАЦИОННЫЕ И ФОРМАЦИОННЫЕ ОБРАЗЫ РОССИИ XIX–XXI вв.: Память и идентичность в советской и постсоветской России
В главе описывается изменение форм самосознания и исторической памяти в России в ХХ-начале XXI вв.
Предлагаемая читателю книга представляет собой собрание интервью известных историков конца ХХ – н... more Предлагаемая читателю книга представляет собой собрание интервью известных историков конца ХХ – начала XXI века. Их бóльшая часть была опубликована в журнале «Диалог со временем» в разное время, ряд других – впервые вводятся в научный оборот. Всего представлены 27 интервью историков, принадлежащих разным поколениям, национальным историческим школам, университетским корпорациям. Отвечая на схожие вопросы, они рассказывают о мотивах и обстоятельствах своего выбора профессии, о своих учителях и научных школах, о перипетиях исследовательской и университетской карьеры, о коллегах, с которыми взаимодействовали и влияние которых испытывали на своем профессиональном пути. Другая группа вопросов затрагивает актуальные темы развития современной историографии, с обсуждением ее общественного статуса, наиболее перспективных тенденций, особенностей национальных исторических традиций и мн. др. / The book offered to the reader is a collection of interviews with famous historians of the late XX – early XXI century. Most of them were published in the journal "Dialog so Vremenem" at different times, a number of others are being introduced into scientific circulation for the first time. In total, twenty seven interviews with historians belonging to different generations, national historical schools, university corporations are presented. Answering similar questions, they talk about the motives and circumstances of their choice of a profession, about their teachers and schools, the vicissitudes of research and university careers, about colleagues with whom they interacted and whose influence they experienced on their professional path. Another group of questions touches on topical issues of the development and new directions of current historiography, with a discussion of its social status, the most promising trends, the characteristics of national historical traditions, and many others.
The collective monograph is devoted to problems related to the correlation of history, memory and... more The collective monograph is devoted to problems related to the correlation of history, memory and identity. It presents some research results aimed at a comparative analysis of the processes and mechanisms of constructing national and national-state identities. In maintaining and “reformatting” collective memory and identity, the important role belongs to the deep-rooted national historiographic traditions, which define a canonized image of the past in the form of a national or national-state narrative demonstrating main “places of memory” and symbols of "common fate." The authors of the monograph examine key aspects of the topic on the basis of the history and historiography of Russia, individual countries of Europe and Latin America with significantly different conditions and trajectories of the national identity formation. / Коллективная монография посвящена проблемам, связанным с соотношением истории, памяти и идентичности. В ней представлены некоторые результаты исследований, ориентированных на сравнительный анализ процессов и механизмов конструирования национальной и национально-государственной идентичности. В поддержании и «переформатировании» коллективной памяти и идентичности велика роль, которую играют имеющие глубокие корни национальные историографические традиции: они задают канонизированный образ прошлого в форме национального или национально-государственного нарратива, демонстрирующего ключевые «места памяти» и символы «общей судьбы». Авторы монографии рассматривают основные аспекты темы на материале истории и историографии России, отдельных стран Европы и Латинской Америки с существенно различающимися условиями и траекториями формирования национальной идентичности.
The categories “event” and “time” inseparably connected with each other have acquired a high epis... more The categories “event” and “time” inseparably connected with each other have acquired a high epistemological status in the context of updating historical science at the turn of the 20th–21st cс. and the deployment of memorial paradigm. Based on theoretical innovations in the interdisciplinary field of memory studies and new approaches to the study of cultures of perception, reconstruction and use of the past, the authors of the book focused on ways and forms of conceptualizing the event, taking into account its temporal dimensions and on various practices of rethinking of historical experience of “significant events”. The mechanisms of formation of “places of memory”, the transformation of images of key events into cultural-historical symbols, their role and functions in strategies for building national history and national-state identity are considered in the long term and in different sociocultural contexts through the prism concepts of historical culture.
Реконструкции мировой и региональной истории: от универсализма к моделям межкультурного диалога / Под общ. ред. Л.П. Репиной. — М.: Аквилон, 2017., 2017
В коллективной монографии представлены поиски современного исторического знания в пространстве ме... more В коллективной монографии представлены поиски современного исторического знания в пространстве между идеалами универсализма и культурного диалога. Основное внимание уделено связи этого процесса с общей ситуацией вокруг исторической науки, с распадом прежней системы ее нормативных предпосылок в ходе многочисленных «поворотов», с созданием новой системы отношения к эпистемологическим проблемам, основанном на взаимодействии ориентиров макро- и микро-истории, c распространением ситуационного и многоэтапного, мультиперспективистского варианта исторического исследования. Показана сложная динамика глобального диалога, проанализированы когнитивные, идентификационные и коммуникационные проблемы гуманитарного знания. Критически рассмотрены различные модели исторического и междисциплинарного синтеза, а также возможности и границы цивилизационных исследований в конце ХХ – начале ХХI века. / The collective monograph presents the search of historical knowledge in the space between the ideals of universalism and cultural dialogue. The main attention is paid to the connection of this process with the current situation in historical science, the collapse of the old system of its normative prerequisites in the course of numerous “turns”, with the creation of a new attitude to epistemological problems based on the interaction of macro and microhistory, the spread of a situational and multistage, multiperspective version of historical research. The complex dynamics of the global dialogue is shown, the cognitive, identification and communication problems of the humanities are analyzed. Various models of historical and interdisciplinary synthesis are critically examined, as well as the possibilities and boundaries of civilizational research in the late twentieth and early XXI c.
How did people view events which they took part in? How did they record and transmit information ... more How did people view events which they took part in? How did they record and transmit information about those events? And how their descendants conceived them and historians interpreted? The interest to the past makes an important part of social consciousness, which is changed by major events and shifts in social life. This pro-cess concerns not only ‘live’ social memory of the events but also deeper layers of cultural memory that is turned to the remote past. These and other questions of great interest are considered by the authors of this book.
В книге рассмотрены исторические изменения в условиях, формах и содержании деятельности по распро... more В книге рассмотрены исторические изменения в условиях, формах и содержании деятельности по распространению идей и инноваций, динамика межличностных связей в интеллектуальных сообществах Нового времени и способы их консолидации. Выяв-лены социальные контексты и культурные ориентиры деятельно-сти интеллектуалов. Проанализированы механизмы функциони-рования интеллектуальных сообществ разных типов и в разных сегментах интеллектуальной среды: с одной стороны, интеллекту-альных сообществ XVI–XVII вв., а с другой – университетских корпораций и научных школ XIX – начала ХХ века. Показано, ка-кое воздействие на формирование сообществ раннего Нового вре-мени оказывали конфессиональный и гендерный факторы; каковы были принципы организации и производства естественнонаучного знания в Европе XVII–XVIII вв.; каким образом формировались научные сообщества и как выстраивались новые формы коммуни-кации в России XVIII–XIX вв.; как культурное наследие Нового времени трансформировалось перед лицом вызовов ХХ века.
The author considers conditions and effects of the methodological turns in historiography of the ... more The author considers conditions and effects of the methodological turns in historiography of the later XX c. and the beginning of the XXI c. The newest approaches which aim to overcome the contraposition of the individual and the social, micro-history and macro-history were analyzed. Formation and development of various newest versions of macro-history, current conceptions of universal, world and global history, multidisciplinary technologies and models of regional and local history has been completed. Being based on the study of the changes of paradigms in historical biography, social, gender, cultural and intellectual his-tory the research has shown heuristic potential of the new models of interdisciplinary synthesis in historical research.
В книге рассмотрены условия и последствия методологических поворотов в историографии второй половины XX – начала XXI века, породивших новые варианты изучения прошлого, призванные преодолеть противопоставление индивидуального и социального, микро- и макроистории. Показано становление и развитие новейших версий макроистории, современных концепций всеобщей, всемирной, глобальной истории, региональной и локальной истории. Анализ смены парадигм в исторической биографии, социальной, гендерной, культурной и интеллектуальной истории, истории памяти и исторического сознания позволил продемонстрировать эвристический потенциал предложенных моделей междисциплинарного синтеза в историческом исследовании.
The turn of the XX–XXI cс. was marked by the emergence of the "memorial paradigm", within which i... more The turn of the XX–XXI cс. was marked by the emergence of the "memorial paradigm", within which images of the past act as interpretive models that allow an individual and a social group to navigate in situations of the present. The researchers focused on the relationship between memory and identity, historical consciousness and “historical politics”. The task is to include in the actual perspective of the "history of memory" specific studies of the historical and political culture of modern times. From this position, the author reflects on a new book by the well-known Russian historian and English scholar Marina Aizenshtat, dedicated to the role of myths and knowledge about the past in the political culture of Britain in the second half of the 18th century. / Рубеж XX–XXI вв. был отмечен появлением “мемориальной парадигмы”, в рамках которой образы прошлого выступают как интерпретационные модели, позволяющие индивиду и социальной группе ориентироваться в ситуациях настоящего. В фокусе внимания исследователей оказались вопросы, связанные с соотношением истории, памяти и идентичности, с изучением типов исторического сознания и “исторической политики”. Ставится задача включить в актуальную перспективу «истории памяти» конкретных исследований исторической и политической культуры Нового времени. С этой позиции автор размышляет о новой книге известного российского историка-англоведа Марины Павловны Айзенштат, посвященной роли мифов и знаний о прошлом в политической культуре Британии второй половины XVIII века.
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both the history of ideas and intellectual culture, and socio-political history. Many of the major social conflicts at every fork in the history of different countries would not have been possible without the critical, creative and social activity of intellectuals. The authors of the monograph focused their efforts on the problems of interaction between intellectuals and authorities (both cooperation and confrontation). The book presents the results of developing important aspects of the topic based on the history of Russia (in different periods) and individual European countries with different trajectories of development, the formation of public consciousness and political culture, in the context of competition between projects for the future and different forms of identity (regional, ethnic, confessional, party, etc.).
strategies of prominent British and Russian intellectuals in a situation of systemic crisis during the “Transition Era” and the formation of cultural/national/Imperial identities in Britain and Russia in the 17th and the 18th c. On the base of the historical and comparative analysis of the cultural code of the emerging British and Russian identities basing on historical materials — polemical texts, texts of sermons and travelogues of the 17th and the 18th c.—deals with the common and specific in the practices and mechanisms of impact of various groups of intellectuals
on power and society in Britain and Russia in the situation of the disintegration of the Universalist image of the world and the formation of new ideas on the human, the society and the state.
В книге рассмотрены условия и последствия методологических поворотов в историографии второй половины XX – начала XXI века, породивших новые варианты изучения прошлого, призванные преодолеть противопоставление индивидуального и социального, микро- и макроистории. Показано становление и развитие новейших версий макроистории, современных концепций всеобщей, всемирной, глобальной истории, региональной и локальной истории. Анализ смены парадигм в исторической биографии, социальной, гендерной, культурной и интеллектуальной истории, истории памяти и исторического сознания позволил продемонстрировать эвристический потенциал предложенных моделей междисциплинарного синтеза в историческом исследовании.