Russian Film Symposium 2002: Imperial Fatigue

[Vladimir Padunov]

Russian Film Symposium 2002: Imperial Fatigue
http://www.rusfilm.pitt.edu

Unlike much of Europe in the early twentieth century, Russia did not
replace a dynastic-religious empire with a nation-state. Instead, it had
substituted its dynastic empire with a socialist one, enduring
three-quarters of a century. In the years after the 1991 collapse of the
USSR, the critical task facing Russia's leadership was not "merely" the
appropriation of an existing structure. Instead, for the first time in
Russia's thousand-year history, the task was to forge a nation-state
from the remains of Europe's last multinational empire, the third
largest empire in human history. "Imperial Fatigue" presents a selection
of recent films that trace, directly or indirectly, Russia's sloughing
off of its imperial burden and reconstitution as a nation-state when the
very function of the nation-state is called into question.

Monday, 29 April - Sunday, 12 May 2002 (films with English subtitles;
exhibits; readings and performances)


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Vladimir Padunov
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
1433 Cathedral of Learning             voice: 1-412-624-5713
University of Pittsburgh                    FAX: 1-412-624-9714
Pittsburgh, PA 15260                         padunov+ at pitt.edu

Russian Film Symposium          http://www.rusfilm.pitt.edu

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