大夏讲坛（110）The Politics of Symbolism in Post-Soviet Russia (Graeme Gill)

 大夏讲坛（110）

 主讲：格雷厄姆·吉尔教授

题目：俄罗斯的“象征”政治

时间：2012年9月1日下午2:00

地点：中山北路校区理科大楼A504

Daxia Forum Lecture (110)

 Speaker: Prof. Graeme Gill

Theme: The Politics of Symbolism in Post-Soviet Russia

Time: 14:00 pm, September 1, 2012

Venue:A504, Science Building,ECNU

内容概要

俄罗斯的“象征”政治

苏联的解体后，对于俄罗斯政治的稳定与合法性而言，迫切需要新的叙事（narrative）。这一任务在叶利钦时代没有完成，原因是当时政治冲突激烈。普京时代开始面对这个关键问题：即如何将苏联的经历整合进入统一的民族叙事之中？这涉及到对苏联的历史记忆与态度的问题。

对于苏联的经历，俄罗斯社会中存在着怀旧的、积极的历史记忆，也有消极的记忆，在一些问题上还没有共识。一个统一的象征性叙述，可能需要等待俄罗斯下一代的人来完成。

 The Politics of Symbolism in Post-Soviet Russia.

The collapse of the USSR and its metanarrative left a large intellectual gap in the contemporary Soviet polity. A new narrative was needed to anchor the new polity and provide a sense of legitimacy to the new regime. The development of such a narrative was impossible under President Yeltsin because of the levels of political conflict that were evident at that time. After Yeltsin left the scene, this political problem disappeared, but the essential problem remained: how to integrate the Soviet experience into a coherent national narrative. The essence of this problem was the contested nature of the USSR in the contemporary public sphere. This was a function of the differentiated nature of memory and the consequent diversity of attitudes to the USSR. Positive memory acted as a basis for the nostalgia currently widely evident in Russian society. But there is also a more negative view of the Soviet experience, and this rests in part upon images of Stalin and the terror/repressions. There has been no full coming to terms with the Stalin question, and this, and the development of a coherent symbolic narrative, may have to await the passing of the current generation.

演讲人简介：

    格雷厄姆·吉尔教授，毕业于伦敦政治经济学院（LSE），师从于著名的苏联政治专家夏皮罗（Leonard Schapiro）。自1981年起任教于悉尼大学至今。长期致力于苏联/俄罗斯的政治与历史研究。撰写了关于苏联/俄罗斯政治的18本著作、近百余篇学术文章。1994年，当选为澳大利亚社会科学院（ASSA）院士；2010年当选为新一届国际中东欧研究理事会（ICCEES）主席，该机构是目前国际学术界公认的最高级别的、具有世界影响力的中东欧、俄苏问题国际学术共同体。