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Victim-heroes in collective memory: Surviving soviet repressions heroically [PDF]

Memory Studies, 2021
Memory narratives commonly include characters such as heroes (triumphant or fallen), martyrs, perpetrators, and victims. In recent years, the victim has become the central character in the dominant, western-centric, and globalized memory culture. A victim’s definition is problematic: few existing memory narratives include “ideal,” or innocent victims ...
Khlevniuk, D., Daria Khlevnyuk
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Exhibitions on Soviet Repressions at the Moscow NGO Memorial (2011–2021): Transforming Family Memory into Cultural Memory

Problems of Post-Communism, 2022
The article analyses the curation of the history of Soviet repressions at the temporary exhibitions organized by the NGO known as International Memorial in Moscow from 2011 to 2021. Compared with other Russian museums presenting this topic, Memorial is unique in that it relies mainly on family archives and family memories.
Tchouikina, Sofia
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THE POLITICAL REPRESSIONS OF 1918-1953 OF THE TAMBOV SOCIAL ELITE: CHARACTER AND STRUCTURE

Вестник Тамбовского университета. Серия: Гуманитарные науки, 2017
The character and structure of political repressions of the Tambov social elite of 1920-1940s is considered. The source for research were prosopographic electronic database (DB) of repressed elite, which includes more than a thousand personalities, and ...
A. N. Kosenkov
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Russian Orthodox Church as the actor of modern politics of memory: the canonization discourse

Studia Humanitatis, 2018
On the basis of the analysis of various directions of canonization practices the article shows the transformation of the Russian Orthodox Church in the beginning of the 21st century into an active memory policy actor in Russia.
Batishev Roman Jurevich, Belyaev Evgenii Vladimirovich, Linchenko Andrei Aleksandrovich   +2 more
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Poles in Galicia during the Second World War: experience and remembrance

Wrocławski Rocznik Historii Mówionej, 2014
Based on biographical interviews coming from different collections of the Oral History Archives of the KARTA Center Foundation and the History Meeting House, the text highlights three main elements of biographical experience which make the narrations of ...
Anna Wylegała
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Solovetsky Stone in Arkhangelsk as a Symbol of Traumatic Memory of Soviet Repressions: From Comprehension to Oblivion [PDF]

Tempus et Memoria
The article examines the process of forming the memory of the Solovetsky Stone, the monument to the victims of political repression. The author of the article relies on the methodology of cultural trauma and the concept of cultural memory and assumes that memory has a social framework.
Дранникова, Н. В., Drannikova, N. V.   +1 more
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The Great Buildings of Communism in the Mirror of Soviet Nostalgia / Великие стройки коммунизма в зеркале советской ностальгии

Индустрии впечатлений: Технологии социокультурных исследований
The article examines the evolution of the mythology of the great construction projects of communism in the context of nostalgia for the Soviet. The author shows the specifics of the formation of the mythology of great construction projects in the Soviet ...
Sophia Tikhonova / Софья Владимировна Тихонова
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Russian and Ukrainian villages during the “Great Turning Point”: history and memory

Известия высших учебных заведений. Поволжский регион: Гуманитарные науки, 2022
Background. For a long time the violent nature of collectivization was hushed up in the USSR, any mention of the hunger of 1932–1933 was prohibited. However, despite the prohibitions and censorship, the people’s memory of those years events and the ...
I.E. Koznova
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Babyn Yar. Holocaust — Taboo Topics of Soviet Historiography [PDF]

, 2021
В статті йдеться про етапи формування історичної пам’яті щодо проблеми Голокосту та трагедії Бабиного Яру в СРСР і Україні. Автори зосереджують увагу на боротьбі сталінської системи з об’єктивними спогадами людей, пам’яттю суспільства, яку тоталітарна ...
Рамазанов, Ш. Ш., Левітас, Ф. Л.   +1 more
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Stalin’s Repressions and Rehabilitation of the Victims in the Politics of Memory in Uzbekistan

Genocidas ir Rezistencija
This article is devoted to the analysis of how Stalin’s repressions are represented in the politics of memory in Uzbekistan, becoming part of the process of constructing a national ideological discourse.
Azim Malikov
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