Images of violence against believers in a museum exhibition: The history of one case from the KGB archive

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dc.contributor.authorVagramenko, Tatiana
dc.contributor.authorNicolescu, Gabriela
dc.contributor.funderHorizon 2020en
dc.contributor.funderEuropean Research Councilen
dc.date.accessioned2021-04-29T12:09:16Z
dc.date.available2021-04-29T12:09:16Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.descriptionThis research is part of the project Creative Agency and Religious Minorities: Hidden Galleries in the Secret Police Archives in Central and Eastern Europe. The project has received funding from the European Research 2020 research and innovation programme No. 677355.en
dc.description.abstractThe article discusses the use and perception of images of state violence in a museum space. It tells the story of an unusual trial against a group of believers, arrested in 1952 in Ukraine and charged as members of the “ecclesiastic-monarchist underground organization” the True Orthodox Church. Images from the group penal file (preserved nowadays at the Archives of the Ukrainian Security Service in Kiev) were displayed at the exhibition held in 2019 at the Museum of Art in Cluj-Napoca. Visitors were invited to look at two sets of photographs: originals and spruced-up copies, both produced by secret police officers. Through the reconstruction of the story of the people on trial, we discuss the role of images of state violence and religious repression in triggering the mechanisms of historical memory. How can we transform recent traumatic past into historical and cultural legacy, while preventing it against unhealthy manipulations? What are the attributes and limits of showing? Suggesting a “thick description” approach towards archival reading and the reconstruction of microhistories we discuss how the images of the “difficult” past can generate different narratives and how they can heal wounds rather than make new ones.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
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dc.identifier.citationVagramenko, T. and Nicolescu, G. (2021) 'Images of violence against believers in a museum exhibition: The history of one case from the KGB archive', Researches in Religious Studies, 23 (1)en
dc.identifier.endpage23en
dc.identifier.issn2224-6711
dc.identifier.issued1en
dc.identifier.journaltitleResearches in Religious Studiesen
dc.identifier.journaltitleРелигиоведческих исследованийru
dc.identifier.startpage1en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/11234
dc.identifier.volume23en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherRussian Religious Societyen
dc.relation.projectinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020::ERC::ERC-STG/677355/EU/Creative Agency and Religious Minorities: ‘hidden galleries’ in the secret police archives in 20th Century Central and Eastern Europe/Hidden Galleriesen
dc.relation.urihttps://rrs-journal.ru/
dc.subjectИстинно-православнаяru
dc.subjectцерковьru
dc.subjectсоветскиеru
dc.subjectспецслужбыru
dc.subjectрелигиозные репрессииru
dc.subjectархив и памятьru
dc.subjectобразы насилия в музейном пространствеru
dc.titleImages of violence against believers in a museum exhibition: The history of one case from the KGB archiveen
dc.title.alternativeОбразы насилия над верующими в музейной экспозиции: История одного дела из архива КГБru
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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