Elena Rozhdestvenskaya, Victoria Semenova, Irina Tartakovskaya and Krzysztof Kosela, Collective Memories in War

Elena Rozhdestvenskaya and her co-editors conclude an introduction to their edited volume with an instructive observation on the primary function of social memory. They describe this function with the premise "that the shared memory of certain events in the past is a necessary condition for th...

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Hovedforfatter: Danilova, Nataliya
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Sprog:Anglais
Udgivet: The Journal of power institutions in post-soviet societies 2018
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Summary:Elena Rozhdestvenskaya and her co-editors conclude an introduction to their edited volume with an instructive observation on the primary function of social memory. They describe this function with the premise "that the shared memory of certain events in the past is a necessary condition for the support of a general feeling of unity at the national level, without which consensus regarding the past is in danger: without which there is no 'us'" (p. 6). True to this premise, Collective Memories ...