Barash R.E. Post memory of the Soviet past as the foundation of the Russian present. In: Diagnosis of modernity and global social challenges in socio-philosophical reflection ...

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Abstract

Using the methodological framework of the concept of post-memory, the author refers to the results of sociological research in order to study the historical memory of modern Russians and their perception of the main events of Russian history. Through the concept of post-memory, the author tries to explain why, despite the natural distance of the Soviet era, the memory of the Soviet past underpins Russian everyday life. Turning to sociological data, the author tells how family post-memory is “intertwined” with national memory, being passed down from generation to generation, and becoming part of the national tradition. However, the commemoration of national history by family memory in Russian society is heterogeneous, non-linear: family post-memory of the Great Patriotic War is the center of national memory, while the memory of Stalinist repressions is difficult due to the tragic lack of memory of the descendants of their victims and eyewitnesses. If the central event of national history, the Victory in the Great Patriotic War, is felt as a significant event for almost every Russian family, then the figure of the addressee of historical justice in relation to the assessment of Stalin's repressions in Russian society has not developed. Using the methodological framework of the concept of post-memory, the author refers tothe results of sociological research in order to study the historical memory of modern Russiansand their perception of the main events of Russian history. Through the concept of postmemory, the author tries to explain why, despite the natural distance of the Soviet era, the memory of the Soviet past underpins Russian everyday life. Turning to sociological data, the author tells how familial postmemory is “intertwined” with national memory, being passed down from generation to generation, and becoming part of the national tradition. However, the commemoration of national history by family memory in Russian society is heterogeneous, non-linear: familial postmemory of the Great Patriotic War is the center of the national memory, while the memory of the Stalinist repressions is difficult due to the tragic lack of their victims' and eyewitnesses' descendants' memory. If the central event of the national history, the Victory in the Great Patriotic War, is felt as a significant event for almost every Russian family, then the figure of the addressee of historical justice in relation to the assessment of Stalinist's repressions in Russian society has not developed.