Research Article | Open Access
Great Patriotic War 1941- 1945 as Historical Memory Phenomenon of Contemporary Russian Students
Zhanna O. Blagorozheva Natalia V. Lazurenko Natalia N. Podporinova Marina E. Polenova Irina G. Voloshina
Pages: 594-598
Abstract
The paper presents the results of a Russian study on the state and dynamics of the
historical memory of Russian students. As a scientific result, the paper presents the
main socialization results by virtue of broadcasting the historical memory of the Great
Patriotic War to students of the Russian frontier region. The main positions that
characterize the identified socialization results are outlined: background emotional
and value experiences associated with the long-term consequences of a wartime
cultural trauma, and historical narrative: student assessments / interpretations of
relevant historical events that have been intensively revised in several European
countries in recent decades within the framework of the "politics of memory." As a
result of the study, the problematic points of upbringing the historical memory of
student youth were identified; they mainly include narrative moments related to the
comprehension of a number of controversial political assessments / interpretations
concerning the events of the Second World War in the “information wars” conditions.
Keywords
students, historical memory, cultural trauma, values, World War II, Great Patriotic War, politics of memory, contemporary Russia