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Difference as likeness: The Russian emigre architects in the interwar Serbia and the construction of Serbian national identity

Ignjatović, Aleksandar

(Institut za noviju istoriju Srbije, Beograd, 2011)

TY  - JOUR
AU  - Ignjatović, Aleksandar
PY  - 2011
UR  - https://raf.arh.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/98
AB  - The role of Russian emigration in the process of the construction of Serbian national identity during the perplexing ideological and political context of the 1920s and 1930s, is far beyond the scope of particular scholarly disciplines. The various disciplinary regimes produced and disseminated the idea of a Serbian identity as distinct from other South Slav identities at the same time with the establishment of a critical discourse regarding the Yugoslav Russian emigres, who were seen as simultaneously similar to and different from Serbs. Distinguished by the variety of likenesses and differences, the discourse has been systematically constructed by the interpretation of architecture designed by Russian emigres and spread all over the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. Corresponding to the general scope of interpretation of the Russian emigres in their new Slavic home, this segment of interwar architectural culture is symptomatic of the ideological roles and functions the Russian emigres have. The architecture of the Russian emigres has further reinforced the understanding of Serbian national identity within critical contexts of national crisis (both in the 1930s and in the 1990s), establishing some of the principal resources (and also the political functions) of Serbian national identity: from triumphalism, expansionism and imperial rule, to self-martyrization, anti-Communism and pious Orthodox faith. The interpretation of architecture of Russian Emigres in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (The Kingdom of Yugoslavia) has been distinguished by a distinctly flexible and functional paradigm, based on a seemingly contradictory duality of differences and similarities between Serbian and Russian national identities. The crucial ideological dimension of such interpretational paradigm, which has many features of the process of 'longue duree', is the unification of culturally dismembered Serbian national body that constantly oscillates between an external 'neighbor' and inner 'enemies'.
AB  - U ovom radu se analizira značaj ruske emigracije u procesu uobličavanja srpskog nacionalnog identiteta u složenom političkom i ideološkom kontekstu Kraljevine Srba, Hrvata i Slovenaca (Kraljevine Jugoslavije). Ovakva analiza prevazilazi okvire pojedinačnih naučnih disciplina i ukazuje na zamašne ideološke dimenzije. U radu se razmatra odnos srpskog identiteta naspram identiteta drugih zajednica u Jugoslaviji posebno sličnosti i razlike sa zamišljenim, jedinstvenim korpusom ruskih emigranata i njihove kulture. O ovom zahvatu suodnošenja, u kome se prepliću bliskosti i razlike, svedoče brojni arhitektonski projekti i građevine, spomenici i reprezentativne državne palate čiji su autori bili ruski arhitekte emigrant!. Tumačenja arhitekture ruskih emigranata pomaže da se utvrde neki od karakterističnih sadržaja srpskog nacionalnog identiteta: od trijumfalizma i legitimacije ekspanzionizma i imperijalne vlasti, preko otklona od komunizma. do mučeništva i pravoslavne duhovnosti.
PB  - Institut za noviju istoriju Srbije, Beograd
T2  - Tokovi istorije
T1  - Difference as likeness: The Russian emigre architects in the interwar Serbia and the construction of Serbian national identity
T1  - Razlika u funkciji sličnosti - arhitektura ruskih emigranata u Srbiji između dva svetska rata i konstrukcija srpskog nacionalnog identiteta
IS  - 1
SP  - 63
EP  - 75
UR  - https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_raf_98
ER  - 
@article{
author = "Ignjatović, Aleksandar",
year = "2011",
abstract = "The role of Russian emigration in the process of the construction of Serbian national identity during the perplexing ideological and political context of the 1920s and 1930s, is far beyond the scope of particular scholarly disciplines. The various disciplinary regimes produced and disseminated the idea of a Serbian identity as distinct from other South Slav identities at the same time with the establishment of a critical discourse regarding the Yugoslav Russian emigres, who were seen as simultaneously similar to and different from Serbs. Distinguished by the variety of likenesses and differences, the discourse has been systematically constructed by the interpretation of architecture designed by Russian emigres and spread all over the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. Corresponding to the general scope of interpretation of the Russian emigres in their new Slavic home, this segment of interwar architectural culture is symptomatic of the ideological roles and functions the Russian emigres have. The architecture of the Russian emigres has further reinforced the understanding of Serbian national identity within critical contexts of national crisis (both in the 1930s and in the 1990s), establishing some of the principal resources (and also the political functions) of Serbian national identity: from triumphalism, expansionism and imperial rule, to self-martyrization, anti-Communism and pious Orthodox faith. The interpretation of architecture of Russian Emigres in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (The Kingdom of Yugoslavia) has been distinguished by a distinctly flexible and functional paradigm, based on a seemingly contradictory duality of differences and similarities between Serbian and Russian national identities. The crucial ideological dimension of such interpretational paradigm, which has many features of the process of 'longue duree', is the unification of culturally dismembered Serbian national body that constantly oscillates between an external 'neighbor' and inner 'enemies'., U ovom radu se analizira značaj ruske emigracije u procesu uobličavanja srpskog nacionalnog identiteta u složenom političkom i ideološkom kontekstu Kraljevine Srba, Hrvata i Slovenaca (Kraljevine Jugoslavije). Ovakva analiza prevazilazi okvire pojedinačnih naučnih disciplina i ukazuje na zamašne ideološke dimenzije. U radu se razmatra odnos srpskog identiteta naspram identiteta drugih zajednica u Jugoslaviji posebno sličnosti i razlike sa zamišljenim, jedinstvenim korpusom ruskih emigranata i njihove kulture. O ovom zahvatu suodnošenja, u kome se prepliću bliskosti i razlike, svedoče brojni arhitektonski projekti i građevine, spomenici i reprezentativne državne palate čiji su autori bili ruski arhitekte emigrant!. Tumačenja arhitekture ruskih emigranata pomaže da se utvrde neki od karakterističnih sadržaja srpskog nacionalnog identiteta: od trijumfalizma i legitimacije ekspanzionizma i imperijalne vlasti, preko otklona od komunizma. do mučeništva i pravoslavne duhovnosti.",
publisher = "Institut za noviju istoriju Srbije, Beograd",
journal = "Tokovi istorije",
title = "Difference as likeness: The Russian emigre architects in the interwar Serbia and the construction of Serbian national identity, Razlika u funkciji sličnosti - arhitektura ruskih emigranata u Srbiji između dva svetska rata i konstrukcija srpskog nacionalnog identiteta",
number = "1",
pages = "63-75",
url = "https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_raf_98"
}
Ignjatović, A.. (2011). Difference as likeness: The Russian emigre architects in the interwar Serbia and the construction of Serbian national identity. in Tokovi istorije
Institut za noviju istoriju Srbije, Beograd.(1), 63-75.
https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_raf_98
Ignjatović A. Difference as likeness: The Russian emigre architects in the interwar Serbia and the construction of Serbian national identity. in Tokovi istorije. 2011;(1):63-75.
https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_raf_98 .
Ignjatović, Aleksandar, "Difference as likeness: The Russian emigre architects in the interwar Serbia and the construction of Serbian national identity" in Tokovi istorije, no. 1 (2011):63-75,
https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_raf_98 .

From Constructed Memory to Imagined National Tradition: The Tomb of the Unknown Yugoslav Soldier (1934-38)

Ignjatović, Aleksandar

(2010)

TY  - JOUR
AU  - Ignjatović, Aleksandar
PY  - 2010
UR  - https://raf.arh.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/79
AB  - The Tomb of the Unknown Yugoslav Soldier is considered one of the most telling examples of the representational culture of interwar Yugoslavism. Having initially been constructed as a symbol of national identification of the South Slays, the Tomb gives an insight into the complexity of the national idea in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (the Kingdom of Yugoslavia). This article examines the ideological and political roles of the Tomb with regard to the competing and complementary visions of Yugoslavism that dominated the political Yugoslav landscape between 1934 and 1938.
T2  - Slavonic and East European Review
T1  - From Constructed Memory to Imagined National Tradition: The Tomb of the Unknown Yugoslav Soldier (1934-38)
VL  - 88
IS  - 4
SP  - 624
UR  - https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_raf_79
ER  - 
@article{
author = "Ignjatović, Aleksandar",
year = "2010",
abstract = "The Tomb of the Unknown Yugoslav Soldier is considered one of the most telling examples of the representational culture of interwar Yugoslavism. Having initially been constructed as a symbol of national identification of the South Slays, the Tomb gives an insight into the complexity of the national idea in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (the Kingdom of Yugoslavia). This article examines the ideological and political roles of the Tomb with regard to the competing and complementary visions of Yugoslavism that dominated the political Yugoslav landscape between 1934 and 1938.",
journal = "Slavonic and East European Review",
title = "From Constructed Memory to Imagined National Tradition: The Tomb of the Unknown Yugoslav Soldier (1934-38)",
volume = "88",
number = "4",
pages = "624",
url = "https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_raf_79"
}
Ignjatović, A.. (2010). From Constructed Memory to Imagined National Tradition: The Tomb of the Unknown Yugoslav Soldier (1934-38). in Slavonic and East European Review, 88(4), 624.
https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_raf_79
Ignjatović A. From Constructed Memory to Imagined National Tradition: The Tomb of the Unknown Yugoslav Soldier (1934-38). in Slavonic and East European Review. 2010;88(4):624.
https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_raf_79 .
Ignjatović, Aleksandar, "From Constructed Memory to Imagined National Tradition: The Tomb of the Unknown Yugoslav Soldier (1934-38)" in Slavonic and East European Review, 88, no. 4 (2010):624,
https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_raf_79 .
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Between the universal and the authentic: On the architecture of the warrior’s home in Belgrade

Ignjatović, Aleksandar

(Muzej grada Beograda, Beograd, 2005)

TY  - JOUR
AU  - Ignjatović, Aleksandar
PY  - 2005
UR  - https://raf.arh.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/20
AB  - The Warrior’s Home in Belgrade, for which an architectural competition was organized in the spring of 1929 and which was built two years later according to the project made by Belgrade architects Jovan Jovanović and Živojin Piperski, is not only an important architectural monument, but a significant testimony to the official Yugoslav ideology at the time of the so-called "January regime", established in 1929. However, not only the constructed edifice, but also the awarded and purchased works, as well as public assessments voiced by contemporaries, form a vivid and striking picture of the army’s cultural and political role in the social life of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes/Yugoslavia. In that sense, especially indicative are the works awarded at the competition, the condensation of which led to the final architectural solution, owing primarily to the instructions of the Committee for the construction of the Home. The fact that the project of architects Bogdan Nestorović and Jovan Šnajder in the "Byzantine-Romanesque" style received an equal evaluation as did the academic solution of Jovan Jovanović and Živojin Piperski, shaped through a syntax of neo historical styles, is especially symptomatic. It attests to different visions of the suitable Yugoslav tradition lying at the very core of the ideological apparatus of the Army of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia – the central institution of the Yugoslav society. Apart from architecture, this is also attested to by the developed iconographic program of the facade sculpture which was never realized. For this reason, the Warrior’s Home in Belgrade can be considered as a unique example of the ideological interaction of architecture and sculpture, and a good example of the role of architecture in the shaping of perceptions of collective identity.
AB  - Tekst govori o arhitektonskom konkursu za zgradu Ratničkog doma u Beogradu (1929-1931), o arhitekturi nagrađenih radova i izvedene građevine, sa aspekta stvaranja slike o vojsci kao centralnoj instituciji jugoslovenskog društva u vreme šestojanuarskog režima kralja Aleksandra I Karađorđevića. Arhitektonski i vizuelni identitet Ratničkog doma je jedan od upečatljivih primera konstruisanja inventovanih tradicija jugoslovenstva, a njegova ideološka aura neobično značajno svedočanstvo uloge arhitekture u stvaranju i prikazivanju ideologije integralnog jugoslovenstva.
PB  - Muzej grada Beograda, Beograd
T2  - Godišnjak grada Beograda
T1  - Between the universal and the authentic: On the architecture of the warrior’s home in Belgrade
T1  - Između univerzalnog i autentičnog - o arhitekturi ratničkog doma u Beogradu
IS  - 52
SP  - 313
EP  - 332
UR  - https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_raf_20
ER  - 
@article{
author = "Ignjatović, Aleksandar",
year = "2005",
abstract = "The Warrior’s Home in Belgrade, for which an architectural competition was organized in the spring of 1929 and which was built two years later according to the project made by Belgrade architects Jovan Jovanović and Živojin Piperski, is not only an important architectural monument, but a significant testimony to the official Yugoslav ideology at the time of the so-called "January regime", established in 1929. However, not only the constructed edifice, but also the awarded and purchased works, as well as public assessments voiced by contemporaries, form a vivid and striking picture of the army’s cultural and political role in the social life of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes/Yugoslavia. In that sense, especially indicative are the works awarded at the competition, the condensation of which led to the final architectural solution, owing primarily to the instructions of the Committee for the construction of the Home. The fact that the project of architects Bogdan Nestorović and Jovan Šnajder in the "Byzantine-Romanesque" style received an equal evaluation as did the academic solution of Jovan Jovanović and Živojin Piperski, shaped through a syntax of neo historical styles, is especially symptomatic. It attests to different visions of the suitable Yugoslav tradition lying at the very core of the ideological apparatus of the Army of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia – the central institution of the Yugoslav society. Apart from architecture, this is also attested to by the developed iconographic program of the facade sculpture which was never realized. For this reason, the Warrior’s Home in Belgrade can be considered as a unique example of the ideological interaction of architecture and sculpture, and a good example of the role of architecture in the shaping of perceptions of collective identity., Tekst govori o arhitektonskom konkursu za zgradu Ratničkog doma u Beogradu (1929-1931), o arhitekturi nagrađenih radova i izvedene građevine, sa aspekta stvaranja slike o vojsci kao centralnoj instituciji jugoslovenskog društva u vreme šestojanuarskog režima kralja Aleksandra I Karađorđevića. Arhitektonski i vizuelni identitet Ratničkog doma je jedan od upečatljivih primera konstruisanja inventovanih tradicija jugoslovenstva, a njegova ideološka aura neobično značajno svedočanstvo uloge arhitekture u stvaranju i prikazivanju ideologije integralnog jugoslovenstva.",
publisher = "Muzej grada Beograda, Beograd",
journal = "Godišnjak grada Beograda",
title = "Between the universal and the authentic: On the architecture of the warrior’s home in Belgrade, Između univerzalnog i autentičnog - o arhitekturi ratničkog doma u Beogradu",
number = "52",
pages = "313-332",
url = "https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_raf_20"
}
Ignjatović, A.. (2005). Between the universal and the authentic: On the architecture of the warrior’s home in Belgrade. in Godišnjak grada Beograda
Muzej grada Beograda, Beograd.(52), 313-332.
https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_raf_20
Ignjatović A. Between the universal and the authentic: On the architecture of the warrior’s home in Belgrade. in Godišnjak grada Beograda. 2005;(52):313-332.
https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_raf_20 .
Ignjatović, Aleksandar, "Between the universal and the authentic: On the architecture of the warrior’s home in Belgrade" in Godišnjak grada Beograda, no. 52 (2005):313-332,
https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_raf_20 .