The First World War’s significance for contemporary Russia: acknowledging the war’s heroes and re-evaluating its final years
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Since 2014, the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, Russian officials have made concerted efforts to create a patriotic narrative that underscores Russia’s valuable role in the war. As part of this narrative, in 2014 Russia unveiled its Monument to the Heroes of the First World War in Moscow; since 2014 revisions have been made to middle and high school history textbooks, and various writings suitable for a general audience have been published that aim to promote a patriotic account of Russia’s wartime experiences. Though it has been widely noted that monuments and texts remain central to forming a specific perception of a nation, scholars have yet to examine the Monument to the Heroes of the First World War and written accounts working in tandem to impart a new understanding of the war to a broad segment of Russian society. The author concludes that the monument and the printed sources craft a patriotic interpretation of Russia’s wartime actions and that such an emphasis reflects the current government’s efforts to create the image of a resilient, strong, and determined Russia.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.007 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.025 | 0.023 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.023 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".