| Annotation |
The article examines the celebration of the 300th anniversary of the annexation of Siberia to Russia in the
key East Siberian cities – Krasnoyarsk and Irkutsk – from the standpoint of communication science, local historical
memory and historical politics, as a symbolic action designed to impose on local communities a certain
set of narratives associated with the concepts of “Siberia”, “Russia” and “accession” as significant factors of
local life. The purpose of the study is to analyze the significance for the local urban communities of Krasnoyarsk
and Irkutsk of the 300th anniversary of the annexation of Siberia to Russia as an essential act of local historical
memory and an element of local historical politics. The methodological basis of this study is the tools of communication
science: the celebration of the 300th anniversary of the annexation of Siberia to Russia is seen as
a symbolic act of local historical politics, which was intended to impose on local communities a certain narrative
(the key concepts of which are “Siberia” and “joining Russia”), and by the effectiveness of the implementation of
which one can judge the self-perception of the urban East Siberian population. The study was carried out on the
basis of archival materials (some of which are introduced into scientific circulation for the first time), materials
of personal origin, local journalism and media materials. It is concluded that despite the active attempts of the
regionalists and the local business elite to organize the celebration and communicative design of the anniversary
as a symbolic act of local historical memory, the 300th anniversary of the annexation of Siberia as a significant
narrative was shared by a very limited number of the population. The budgets of the event turned out to be
sharply scarce, the dates were unclear until the last moment, and the preparations were chaotic. Contrary to the
traditional interpretation of this event of 1881–1882, the 300th anniversary of Siberia as an attempt to form a local
symbol was unsuccessful, which did not prevent interested subjects of socio-political communications (regionals,
part of local elites and government officials) from presenting this event as significant for local life, doing this in
fact according to the classical canons of historical politics. |
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