• Analyse one history painting of your choice.

• What are (national) celebrations for?

• What are the functions of national holidays?

• What use is the analysis of national celebrations for historians?

• Do you perceive any peculiarities in Polish, Ukrainian, Russian celebrations?

 

Essential Reading

Etzioni, Amitai, ‘Towards a Theory of Public Ritual’, Sociological Theory, 18 (2000), pp. 44-59.

Dabrowski, Patrice M., Commemorations and the Shaping of Modern Poland (Bloomington/Indianapolis, 2004), pp. 159-210.

Wortman, Richard, Scenarios of Power. Myth and Ceremony in Russian Monarchy, vol. 2 (Princeton, 2000), pp. 439-480 [= Chapter 13: ‘The Tercentenary Celebrations of 1913’].

Additional Reading

Sandler, Commemorating Pushkin, pp. 85-135.