Vyborg Castle as a Symbol of Power Institutions
In this article we focus on a remembered and imagined border: the changed border between Finland and Russia. We take as a case study the formerly Finnish now Russian town of Vyborg and its castle. The centuries-old castle has marked the limits of power in the Karelia region of the Swedish and Russia...
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ftopenedition:oai:revues.org:pipss/4339 2023-05-15T17:00:05+02:00 Vyborg Castle as a Symbol of Power Institutions Karhu, Jani Wells, Chloe Vyborg Karelia Finland Russia 2018-01-18 http://journals.openedition.org/pipss/4339 en eng Centre d'études et de recherche sur les sociétés et les institutions post-soviétiques The Journal of power institutions in post-soviet societies http://journals.openedition.org/pipss/4339 Creative Commons License info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Borders Sites of Memory Urban History Generations Postmemory World War II Finnish History info:eu-repo/semantics/article article 2018 ftopenedition 2018-01-21T01:05:28Z In this article we focus on a remembered and imagined border: the changed border between Finland and Russia. We take as a case study the formerly Finnish now Russian town of Vyborg and its castle. The centuries-old castle has marked the limits of power in the Karelia region of the Swedish and Russian empires, the Finnish state, the Soviet Union and now Russia. We argue, based on our empirical studies that, for older generations of Finns, the castle can be the “symbol of everything”, whereas for today's Finnish teens the castle is a meaningless image. Thus this article also looks at the boundaries between social generations in their understandings of Finnish history and territory. Article in Journal/Newspaper karelia* karelia* OpenEdition |
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In this article we focus on a remembered and imagined border: the changed border between Finland and Russia. We take as a case study the formerly Finnish now Russian town of Vyborg and its castle. The centuries-old castle has marked the limits of power in the Karelia region of the Swedish and Russian empires, the Finnish state, the Soviet Union and now Russia. We argue, based on our empirical studies that, for older generations of Finns, the castle can be the “symbol of everything”, whereas for today's Finnish teens the castle is a meaningless image. Thus this article also looks at the boundaries between social generations in their understandings of Finnish history and territory. |
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