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The Russian state media have never been a model of rhetorical restraint, but the war in Ukraine has done away with any vestiges of decorum, not to mention secularism. How did Russia go from fighting the “Nazis” in charge of its southwestern neighbor to fighting the forces of Satan? Pre-revolutionary Russia had its own history of ferreting out the demonic, but “Satan” and “Satanism” were far from prominent in official Soviet culture. The Soviet Union was spared the American Satanic Panic of the 1980s, but the years following the collapse of the USSR saw the reintroduction of the tropes of Satanism through a combination of imported anxieties over “cults,” the resurgence of the Russian Orthodox Church, and heated opposition to “dangerous” cultural imports such as Harry Potter and Halloween. This talk traces the growing role of the discourse about Satan in Russian political and popular culture.
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Date:
06/18/2025 18:30 - 06/18/2025
Event venue:
Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Eberhard-Lämmert-Saal, Eingang Meierottostr. 8
10719 Berlin
Berlin
Germany
Target group:
Scientists and scholars, all interested persons
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Relevance:
regional
Subject areas:
Cultural sciences, Language / literature, Philosophy / ethics, Politics, Social studies
Types of events:
Presentation / colloquium / lecture
Entry:
05/21/2025
Sender/author:
Georgia Lummert
Department:
Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin (ZfL)
Event is free:
yes
Language of the text:
English
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event79364
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