Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: The article continues the previously begun study of the political topography of the Finnish capital Helsingfors (Helsinki) in the first months of the Russian Revolution 1917. Based on the materials of Russian and Finnish archives, on published sources, the author shows how the boundaries between «own» and «alien», established in the first days of the revolution, lost force over time and turned out to be blurred. The semantics of delimiting the «mastered» and «undeveloped» space and «scolding» the morally obsolete symbols of the tsarist army (cutting shoulder straps and their demonstrative overthrow on the pavement, similar to the motif "trampling broken chains" popular in poster symbols) can be traced. It was concluded that in the context of the first revolutionary months in the army and navy, the symbols of the former power were transformed and replaced by new ones. Joint with Finnish workers, the passage through the streets and squares of the city served to restore broken ties within the community of sailors and army men in the face of a hostile external world, and also demonstrated a refusal to oppose ethnic groups of local population and servicemen.
Source: Transaction Kola Science Centre
Author: Elena Dubrovskaya
Institutions: Russian Academy of Sciences, Karelian Research Centre
Language: English
Topic: Soviet and Russian History
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
Funder: Russian Academy of Sciences
OpenAlex ID: W4406701671