Olga Davydova
Biographic Data
| ID | 4144022 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Olga Davydova |
| GIVEN NAMES | Olga |
| FAMILY NAME | Davydova |
| SIGNATURE | DAVYDOVA O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of World History RAS |
| ORCID | 0009-0003-7593-5310 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Possibility of Apocalypse
Introduction. This article analyses the representation of the nuclear threat in Peter Watkins’s The War Game (1965) in the context of mass consciousness of the Cold War period. Unlike non-documentary films, where the event of a nuclear explosion is located in the zone of fiction, The War Game offers a hybrid form, combining fact and fiction. The film is seen as a response to historical events such as the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Vietnam War, …
Trends (empirical regularities) of the development of the world economy in the digital age (2020–2050)
The work briefly outlines the main provisions of Solow’s neoclassical theory of economic growth, Keynes’s teachings on state regulation of the economy in crisis situations, and Schumpeter-Kondratieff’s innovation-cyclical theory of socio-economic development, which explains long cycles lasting 30-50 years. Taken together, these three theories make it possible to build effective long-term socio-economic policies that can ensure sustainable develop…
Transformation of honorific office of kanephoros from Archaic Greece to Ptolemaic Egypt
This article examines the institution of the kanephoroi – young maidens who led festive religious pro-cessions carrying baskets. The study systematizes information on the dissemination and transfor-mation of this practice across Greek city-states and in Ptolemaic Egypt. The goal is to identify uni-versal characteristics and regional variations within kanephoria through a comparative analysis of its ritual, social, and representational aspects. Th…
Cinematic Decadence
The article is devoted to the conceptualization of the notion of “decadence” as a cultural and philosophical phenomenon that does not refer exclusively to one period in the history of cultural development. The text considers decadence as a special mode of distribution of the sensible (Jacques Rancière), characterized by a state of confusion, obsessive connection with the past and the disintegration of the boundaries of ethical and political. Deca…
Reorganization of the Eponymous Priesthood of Cleopatra I in 177–123 BCE
This article analyzes the transformation of priestly titles linked to Cleopatra I and their role in legitimizing power in 2nd-century BCE Egypt. It examines shifts in priesthood titulature as elements of a sacral-political strategy to stabilize power amid dynastic crises. The priesthood of Ptolemy and Cleopatra marked her unprecedented lifetime deification. This legitimized her regency for the underage Ptolemy VI, emphasizing maternal authority i…
“A Russian Journal” by John Steinbeck and Robert Capa
Introduction. The article is devoted to the analysis of the images of “us” and “them” in the photographs of Robert Capa on the pages of “A Russian Journal,” the text of which belongs to John Steinbeck. Containing both explicit and implicit markers of otherness, this text is an early example of nascent Cold War discourse. Methods and materials. Using methods of media and visual studies as well as photograph theory, the author of the article consid…
The Dynamics of Studying Symbolism
The focus of the essay is on the scholarly tendencies which impacted the art historical study of Symbolism. Based on the unique practice and experience of the Russian specialists working under the aegis of the inter-institutional collective “European Symbolism and the Style Moderne”, “A Bibliographical Index: ‘Symbolism in the Visual Arts from the mid-19th to the First Decades of the 20th Century’” was completed in 2019. This was the first endeav…
Between Truth and Fiction
The article brings forward the analytics of documentary representation strategies used by Chris Marker in his nonfiction films. The cinematographic work of a famous French director is explored in its connection with the overall process of evolution of nonfiction films. Based on the transformation of the very idea of veracity, Marker’s cinema is described and analyzed as a radical way to overcome the politics of documentary representation expresse…
Bronze Soldier goes Transnational
In this paper, the transnational movement of discourses on both national symbols and belonging and the formation of identities in mediated discussions are examined. The empirical data for the article consist of internet forum conversations of Russian-speaking inhabitants of Finland concerning the dismantling of the Monument to the Fallen in World War II and other related media materials. To analyse the interrelations between mediated (televised) …
Bronze Soldier goes Transnational
In this paper, the transnational movement of discourses on both national symbols and belonging and the formation of identities in mediated discussions are examined. The empirical data for the article consist of internet forum conversations of Russian-speaking inhabitants of Finland concerning the dismantling of the Monument to the Fallen in World War II and other related media materials. To analyse the interrelations between mediated (televised) …
Bronze Soldier goes Transnational
In this paper, the transnational movement of discourses on both national symbols and belonging and the formation of identities in mediated discussions are examined. The empirical data for the article consist of internet forum conversations of Russian-speaking inhabitants of Finland concerning the dismantling of the Monument to the Fallen in World War II and other related media materials. To analyse the interrelations between mediated (televised) …
Between Truth and Fiction
The article brings forward the analytics of documentary representation strategies used by Chris Marker in his nonfiction films. The cinematographic work of a famous French director is explored in its connection with the overall process of evolution of nonfiction films. Based on the transformation of the very idea of veracity, Marker’s cinema is described and analyzed as a radical way to overcome the politics of documentary representation expresse…
The Dynamics of Studying Symbolism
The focus of the essay is on the scholarly tendencies which impacted the art historical study of Symbolism. Based on the unique practice and experience of the Russian specialists working under the aegis of the inter-institutional collective “European Symbolism and the Style Moderne”, “A Bibliographical Index: ‘Symbolism in the Visual Arts from the mid-19th to the First Decades of the 20th Century’” was completed in 2019. This was the first endeav…
“A Russian Journal” by John Steinbeck and Robert Capa
Introduction. The article is devoted to the analysis of the images of “us” and “them” in the photographs of Robert Capa on the pages of “A Russian Journal,” the text of which belongs to John Steinbeck. Containing both explicit and implicit markers of otherness, this text is an early example of nascent Cold War discourse. Methods and materials. Using methods of media and visual studies as well as photograph theory, the author of the article consid…
Cinematic Decadence
The article is devoted to the conceptualization of the notion of “decadence” as a cultural and philosophical phenomenon that does not refer exclusively to one period in the history of cultural development. The text considers decadence as a special mode of distribution of the sensible (Jacques Rancière), characterized by a state of confusion, obsessive connection with the past and the disintegration of the boundaries of ethical and political. Deca…
Reorganization of the Eponymous Priesthood of Cleopatra I in 177–123 BCE
This article analyzes the transformation of priestly titles linked to Cleopatra I and their role in legitimizing power in 2nd-century BCE Egypt. It examines shifts in priesthood titulature as elements of a sacral-political strategy to stabilize power amid dynastic crises. The priesthood of Ptolemy and Cleopatra marked her unprecedented lifetime deification. This legitimized her regency for the underage Ptolemy VI, emphasizing maternal authority i…
The Possibility of Apocalypse
Introduction. This article analyses the representation of the nuclear threat in Peter Watkins’s The War Game (1965) in the context of mass consciousness of the Cold War period. Unlike non-documentary films, where the event of a nuclear explosion is located in the zone of fiction, The War Game offers a hybrid form, combining fact and fiction. The film is seen as a response to historical events such as the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Vietnam War, …
Trends (empirical regularities) of the development of the world economy in the digital age (2020–2050)
The work briefly outlines the main provisions of Solow’s neoclassical theory of economic growth, Keynes’s teachings on state regulation of the economy in crisis situations, and Schumpeter-Kondratieff’s innovation-cyclical theory of socio-economic development, which explains long cycles lasting 30-50 years. Taken together, these three theories make it possible to build effective long-term socio-economic policies that can ensure sustainable develop…
Transformation of honorific office of kanephoros from Archaic Greece to Ptolemaic Egypt
This article examines the institution of the kanephoroi – young maidens who led festive religious pro-cessions carrying baskets. The study systematizes information on the dissemination and transfor-mation of this practice across Greek city-states and in Ptolemaic Egypt. The goal is to identify uni-versal characteristics and regional variations within kanephoria through a comparative analysis of its ritual, social, and representational aspects. Th…
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