Communism vs. Seminarium Kondakovianum

0476769 - ÚDU 2018 RIV CZ eng J - Journal Article
Lovino, Francesco
Communism vs. Seminarium Kondakovianum.
Convivium: exchanges and interactions in the arts of medieval Europe, Byzantium and the Mediterranean. Roč. 4, č. 1 (2017), s. 142-157. ISSN 2336-3452
Institutional support: RVO:68378033
Keywords : communism * Seminarium Kondakovianum * World War II * icons * Czechoslovakia * Josif Stalin * Soviet Academy of Sciences * Sergej Žebelev * Nikolaj Andrejev * Josef Myslivec
OECD category: Arts, Art history

Founded by Russian émigrés fleeing from the Bolshevik Revolution, Seminarium Kondakovianum faced the Communist regime´s strong opposition during its years of publication. This article recounts the stages of this troubled story - from the journal´s foundation with the support of the Ruská Akce (a policy developed in Czechoslovakia in 1920s to welcome middle-class Russian refugees), through its relations with Soviet scholars and institutions affected by Soviet policy in 1920s and 1930s until the late aftermath at the end of World War II, when the last remnants of the Kondakov Institute confronted the Soviet Army first, and, three years lated, the Communist putsch in Czechoslovakia.
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