Educational aspect of the functioning of monuments. The example of Vilnius [PDF]
Vilnius is traditionally a multicultural city. History, especially in the 20th century, brought many radical changes to this place in terms of nationality and systemic transformation. This was reflected in monumental politics.
Adam Bobryk, Izabela Kochan
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The question of national unity in contemporary Russia: is a single national myth possible? [PDF]
The author, relying on the concept of nations as imagined communities, sharing the existence of the scientific concepts of “ethnic” and “civil” nations, considers the possibility of the emergence of a single national myth, which could become the most ...
Artem Barynkin
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Celebrating the 300th Anniversary of the Joining of Siberia to Russia in Krasnoyarsk and Irkutsk: A Failed Act of Local Historical Politics [PDF]
The article examines the celebration of the 300th anniversary of the annexation of Siberia to Russia in the key East Siberian cities – Krasnoyarsk and Irkutsk – from the standpoint of communication science, local historical memory and historical ...
Sergey A. Chernyshov
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The Russian State, Lenin and the Central Asia
Central Asian nations faced a challenge of state-building objectives after the collapse of the USSR. However, it was a complicated task, because those nations were parts of the Russian and, lately, the Soviet state.
E. M. Korhzokin
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The Historical Heritage оf Portugal as a Factor of Division and Consolidation оf Society
The problem of divided societies and divisions in societies acquires special significance against the background of growing socio-political tensions in the internal and external political dimensions around the world.
M. I. Sigachev, S. P. Arteev
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The monograph under review is a successful attempt to reconstruct the place of Sevastopol in the cultural memory of the Soviet period by means of in-depth analysis of the system of discourse related to the history of this city, “places of memory,” and ...
Aleksei D. Popov
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PERSONIFICATION AS A STRATEGY OF HISTORICAL POLICY IN UKRAINE
This article analyzes personification as a historical policy strategy, which consists in the memorialization of certain historical and cultural figures.
Olha Mykhailova
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The hunger games: famine 1932–1933 in the historical policy of Ukraine and Russia
The modern historical policy of Ukraine and the Russia is analysed. The study uses the methodology of historical memory studies, specifically, research of historical consciousness, collective and historical memory.
Viachaslau I. Menkouski +2 more
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The Great Patriotic War in Russian history textbooks
The Great Patriotic War in Russian history textbooks The topic of this article is presenting how the Great Patriotic War (GPW) is depicted in Russian national history textbooks.
Dagmara Moskwa
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The day of remembrance of the “Cursed Soldiers”: commemorative practices in contemporary poland
Since 1 March 2011 Poland has marked the National Day of Remembrance of the „Cursed Soldiers” (Narodowy Dzień Pamięci “Żołnierzy Wyklętych”) — members of the anti-Communist underground in the 1940s and 1950s who tried to prevent Poland’s sovietisation ...
Anna R. Lagno
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