Images of Serbia and Its History in Educational and Media Discourses in Russia

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Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation
Lipetsk State Technical University
Address: Russian Federation, Moscow

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ISTORIYA

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Abstract

The article undertakes a comparative analysis of the images of Serbia and its history in the media and educational discourses of Russia. The change of Russian historical politics after 2014 contributed to the transformation of the images of Serbia in both educational and media discourses, which seems absolutely understandable given the dependence of the actors of the educational and media field on the state, as well as the significant activation of the state itself as an actor of historical politics. The critical discourse analysis of the schoolbooks and TV projects showed that the transformation of the images of Serbia and its history was associated not so much with a change in the content of the main images (Orthodox people, fraternal Slavic people, allied state), but with the expansion of the repertoire of rhetorical techniques and interpretative context. In educational discourse, this was reflected in the expansion of additional information materials about Serbia and its history, strengthening the interpretative and ideological contexts. It was revealed that new history textbooks in Russia were open not only to harsh anti-Western rhetoric, but also to a sacrificial narrative, which is key to the cultural memory of Serbia, and was previously noticeable only within the framework of Russian TV projects. In media discourse, the transformation is reflected in the inclusion of well-recognized images of Serbia in a new semantic configuration. This semantic configuration tends to consider the events of the collapse of Yugoslavia and the tragic events of Serbian history as symbolic parallels of Russian domestic and foreign policy, where the collapse of the USSR and its consequences turn out to be a clearly negative point of the beginning of a new Russian history.

Keywords

Serbia, Kosovo myth, historical consciousness, politics of memory, critical discourse analysis, Slavic solidarity

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30.11.2023

Publication date

25.03.2024

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41666

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GOST	Linchenko A. Images of Serbia and Its History in Educational and Media Discourses in Russia // ISTORIYA – 2024. – V. 15. – Issue 2 (136) [Electronic resource]. URL: https://history.jes.su/S207987840030307-6-1 (circulation date: 17.05.2024). DOI: 10.18254/S207987840030307-6
MLA	Linchenko, Andrey "Images of Serbia and Its History in Educational and Media Discourses in Russia." ISTORIYA 15.2 (136) (2024) DOI: 10.18254/S207987840030307-6
APA	Linchenko A. (2024). Images of Serbia and Its History in Educational and Media Discourses in Russia. ISTORIYA 15(2 (136)) DOI: 10.18254/S207987840030307-6

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