Memory, historiography, and 'memorial paradigm': On the role of historical memory in specific situations [Review: The Past for the Present: Historical Memory and Narratives of National Identity: A Collective Monograph. Repina L.P. (Ed.). Moscow, Akvilon, 2020. (In Russian)]

D.E. Martynov a*, G.P. Myagkov b,a**

aKazan Federal University, Kazan, 420008 Russia

bKazan Innovative University named after V.G. Timiryasov, Kazan, 420111 Russia

E-mail: *dmitrymartynov80@mail.ru, **gmyagkov@yandex.ru

Received November 23, 2020

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DOI: 10.26907/2541-7738.2020.6.227-234

For citation: Martynov D.E., Myagkov G.P. Memory, historiography, and “memorial paradigm”: On the role of historical memory in specific situations [Review: The Past for the Present: Historical Memory and Narratives of National Identity: A Collective Monograph. Repina L.P. (Ed.). Moscow, Akvilon, 2020. (In Russian)]. Uchenye Zapiski Kazanskogo Universiteta. Seriya Gumanitarnye Nauki, 2020, vol. 162, no. 6, pp. 227–234. doi: 10.26907/2541-7738.2020.6.227-234. (In Russian)

Abstract

The paper reviews the collective monograph published by the Center for Intellectual History of the Institute of World History of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IWH RAS). The reviewers consider the theoretical and factual information presented in the monograph in the context of the analysis of both general and specific characteristics of historical memory. The study of historical memory is possible through the analysis of specific political and intellectual practices of the era of early and mature modernity. The use of J. Rusen’s methodology was justified. According to this methodology, historical memory can be regarded as an “unconscious ideology,” which will inevitably be mythological, because it links the memories of an individual with an integral image of the past. From the aforesaid, it may be seen that the compound term “past – for – present”, which expresses the direction of historical memory, can be introduced. The term is reflected in the title of the monograph under review. The substantive features of strategies for the development of historical memory based on ideologemes were considered by the authors using the example of Russia, Great Britain, Poland (the ideology of Sarmatism), and Bolivia (the ideology of Indianism).

Keywords: historiography, L.P. Repina, historical narrative, historical memory, national identity

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