Barash R.E. Contemporary collective memory in Russia. Performative context. Bulletin of the Russian Philosophical Society. 2021. No. 3-4 (97-98). P. 184-194.

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Abstract

The author tries the study of collective Russian identity and the actual attributes of the historical memory of Russian society using the methodological framework of the performative research. Drawing attention to the fact that historical images and symbols doesn’t support just historical knowledge with customs and longterm rituals, but they also humanize it, The author tries the study of collective Russian identity andthe actual attributes of the historical memory of Russian society using themethodological framework of the performative research. Drawing attentionto the fact that historical images and symbols doesn’t support just historicalknowledge with customs and longterm rituals, but they also humanize it, the author problematize the reasons for the low emotional involvement of many modern Russians into the country’s recent history. The recent post-Crimean consolidation has been replaced by a balanced attitude towards the unification with Crimea and to the successes of the Russian army and the country’s international position that are discursively “associated with Crimea” and aren’t perceived as serious grounds for national pride and, accordingly, as grounds for civil consolidation. The historical period that is associated with the victory in the Great Patriotic War is today on the leading positions in the rating of pride of Russia’s citizens. The postwar memory of most Russians is supported by many performative efforts to search the information about family history and underpins pride for the Soviet people’s victory in the Great Patriotic War. However, this post memory naturally weakens and loses its consolidation potential. In a situation of a lack of recent examples of constructive civic collective action, the reasons for grassroots solidarity and civil collective memory and identity would gradually weaken, problematizing the discussion about the foundations of civic consolidation.