Mikhail Suslov, University of Copenhagen

Between a ROC and a Hard Place: Russia’s Cultural Policy in the Times of the “Conservative Turn”

This paper examines the intertwining of cultural policies of the Russian Orthodox Church and of the Russian political leadership. It shows how the ROC is trying to recycle the Soviet-era cultural canon on the one hand, and on the other, how the state selectively utilizes “traditional values” discourses, promoted by the Church, in its conservative agenda. In the paper I will lean upon empirical examinations of some cultural products (such as the films Incredible Travellings of Serafima, Viking, and Matilda), and their receptions by various segments of society, cultural and political elite.

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