scholarly journals Figures and Places of Memory in the Cultural Space of a Small City (on the Materials of Kuibyshev / Kainsk, Novosibirsk Region)

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2 (26)) ◽  
pp. 50-57
Author(s):  
Alla V. Kuznetsova
Keyword(s):  
Historical Memory ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Small City ◽  
National State ◽  
Cultural Space ◽  
The Past ◽  
Novosibirsk Region ◽  
Places Of Memory ◽  
Post Soviet Period

The appeal to the figures and places of memory in the local cultural space of Kuibyshev (Kainsk) and their transformations allowed us to identify the main trends of reflection of the memory of the past in the 20th-21st centuries. Both in the Soviet and post-Soviet period, the national-state version of historical memory prevails. To date, there has been no serious renewal of the symbolic landscape, which indicates an incomplete post-Soviet stage.

scholarly journals THE TIME CAPSULE IN THE POST-SOVIET SOVKHOZ

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (47) ◽  
pp. 84-110
Author(s):  
Elena Malaya ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Logic ◽  
Soviet Economy ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Historical Time ◽  
State Farm ◽  
The Past ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
Time Capsule ◽  
Post Soviet Period

The article is devoted to ideas about the Soviet era, widespread in а village in the north-east of Crimea. The paper offers an analysis of how the community, formed around a partially preserved state farm, builds its own picture of historical time, expands the imaginary boundaries of the Soviet period, and also thinks of it not so much as the past, but as the past future. Particular attention is paid to the object that organizes its temporality — а time capsule, which was laid twice in the studied village (in 1967 and in 2017), as well as its connection with the teleology of modernism. The article compares letters to descendants, sealed in two time capsules, as well as additional documents sent to the future. The text of the 1967 letter is based on a progressive narrative and contains a list of economic indicators of the success of the Soviet economy. By contrast, the 2017 text creates a picture of an unstable time of change, in which the focus is not on the predictable future, but on the vague past and present. The author of the article explains the nostalgia for the Soviet era in the studied community by the reaction to the changes and crises of the post-Soviet period, and suggests using temporal logic in the research of post-socialism.

scholarly journals MARKET UPDATE IN POST-SOVIET KAZAKHSTAN

2021 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anar Mami ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Market Economy ◽  
The State ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Market Reforms ◽  
Private Ownership ◽  
Current Crisis ◽  
Mixed Economy ◽  
The Past ◽  
Post Soviet Period

The article examines the results of market reforms in Kazakhstan in the post-Soviet period, comparing the past and present. For 30 years, the market economy has decided only some of the most pressing issues of the economy. The full transition to private ownership, which began in the 1990s, is already in its infancy. To get out of the current crisis in Kazakhstan, it is necessary to change the direction of economic development. The state must take responsibility for these changes. The result in the country should be a model of mixed economy, offering different forms of ownership. At the same time, the state must control the spheres that facilitate the lives of people and play a key role in the security of the country.

Formation of a sustainable management system Development of territorial communities

2018 ◽  
pp. 15-27
Author(s):  
Nikolai Kozyrev
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
System Development ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Executive Power ◽  
Property Management ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
The Past ◽  
Historical Transition ◽  
Ukrainian Society ◽  
Post Soviet Period

The article discusses the systemic obstacles to the sustainable development of territorial communities in the context of the historical transition from post-communist Ukrainian society, loaded with structures of the past social order, to the modern – in the process of modernizing the country. At the same time, special attention is focused on the factors blocking this development when reforming local self-government. These blockages include, above all, systemic nonlegal practices, the legitimacy of which is ensured not only by the inertia of the Soviet traditions of arbitrariness of the executive power, but also by certain laws of the post-Soviet period. This is especially noticeable in the field of public utilities and property management of territorial communities.

The Music of the Past in Modern Baltic Paganism

2005 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 39-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Strmiska
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Folk Music ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Folk Songs ◽  
Religious Movements ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
The Past ◽  
Folk Traditions ◽  
Post Soviet Period

Modern Baltic Paganism grew out of nineteenth- and twentieth-century folklore research into the folk music, folklore and traditional ethnic cultures of Latvia and Lithuania. Research into native Latvian daina and Lithuanian daino folk songs with their rustic beauty, symbolic richness, and intriguing linkages to ancient Indo-European cultures and religions generated a new sense of pride and ethnic identity among Latvians and Lithuanians. Spiritually inclined folklorists developed religious movements that recreated rituals and beliefs linked to the dainas and dainos. Repressed during Soviet times, these movements have reemerged and flourished in the post-Soviet period. There can be no doubt that music, which over the centuries has played such a crucial role in the transmission of Latvian and Lithuanian folk traditions including native Pagan religions, will remain front and center in the continuing evolution of modern Baltic Pagan religions in Latvia and Lithuania and beyond.

scholarly journals “The Greatest Slovak” in the Historical Memory of Modern Slovakia

2020 ◽  
Vol 162 (6) ◽  
pp. 185-193
Author(s):  
O.S. Krylova ◽  
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G.V. Rokina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Slovak Republic ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Radio Station ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Stage Of Development ◽  
Public Survey ◽  
Historical Figures ◽  
Places Of Memory

The development and preservation of historical memory in the Slovak Republic were discussed using the Slovak pantheon of national heroes as an example. The study aims to show commemorative practices used in the historical development of the country. The mechanisms and tools for defining the collective historical memory of Slovaks in the modern times were considered. Some examples of the political use of memories of the past were analyzed. The title of the paper traces back to the public survey about “the greatest Slovak” arranged by the Slovak radio station and television in May 2018–October 2019. A number of examples illustrating the process of formation of historical myths and stereotypes in the collective historical memory of Slovaks over several centuries were provided. In modern Slovakia, the public is generally rejecting the old stereotypes and new myths are emerging against the background of heated discussions between politicians and historians. A simultaneous destruction of the old “places of memory” and the formation of the new ones is taking place. Furthermore, the traditional pantheon of Slovak national heroes is being updated. These processes have a considerable influence on the development of the country. In this work, special attention was paid to such historical figures of Slovakia as L. Štúr, the Founding Father of the Slovak nation, and M.R. Štefánik, the outstanding politician. The results of the television survey were analyzed in detail: the public had to choose 100 most outstanding personalities of the Slovak history, politics, and culture, as well as to determine “the greatest Slovak” among them. The latter title was finally awarded to M.R. Štefánik. It was concluded that the collective historical memory in Slovakia is at its early stage of development and that Slovaks have not fully overcome the myths and stereotypes of the past.

scholarly journals Islamic Factor of Russian Statehood in the Preimperial Period

Islamovedenie ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-54
Author(s):  
Saidov Akhmedkhan Aminovich ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Historical Memory ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Orthodox Christianity ◽  
The Past ◽  
Russian State ◽  
Sociological Approaches ◽  
Negative Factors ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Special Relevance

The article examines the problems of the relationship between Islam and Orthodox Christianity in the Russian state in the pre-Soviet period, which, according to the author, acquires special relevance in connection with unfolding polemics in the contemporary Russian society, since historical memory influences the nature of these relationships. It analyzes various worldview and socio-political approaches and assessments of the nature of these relationships in the period under study. In this connection, the author reveals the positive socio-political and ge-ostrategic potential of Islam – the autochthonous religion of Russia. Based on the need to rely on the civilizational essence of Russia in the processes of state-building, the article identifies the negative factors that influenced the relationship between Islam and the Russian state in the past, which will now allow, without repeating mistakes, to create the necessary conditions for positive cooperation, to develop common features of the Eurasian identity, to coordinate the most im-portant elements of both political cultures on an ongoing basis. In the final part of the article, relying on the systemic and sociological approaches, the author substantiates the conclusion that, as a historically established Russian phenomenon, the Islamic factor was taken into account as one of the socio-cultural, politically significant elements both in the domestic and foreign policy of the Moscow state.

scholarly journals The Image of the Other as a Structural Characteristic of the Cultural Border on the Example of Ukraine and Donbass

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 124-136
Author(s):  
Ishchenko Nina S. ◽  
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Zaslavskaja Elena A. ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Structural Characteristic ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Cultural Analysis ◽  
The Other ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Analytical Methodology ◽  
Cultural Space ◽  
Russian Culture ◽  
Cultural Conflicts ◽  
The Republic

The article is devoted to the specifics of the cultural frontier of Russian culture. The relevance of the article is due to the strengthening in the post-Soviet period of cultural conflicts on the border of Russian civilization. These conflicts on cultural grounds even lead to military action against the bearers of Russian culture, as has been the case in the Ukrainian war against Donbass since 2014. The article examines the borderland as a zone of intercultural interaction, carries out a cultural analysis of the border between cultures and identities, highlights the structural characteristic of the cultural border ‒ the image of the Other. Based on the conducted cultural analysis, the structure of the cultural space of Ukraine and the Donbass, including the wartime situation since 2014 is investigated. The study of the media content of Ukrainian information projects and similar projects in the LPR is carried out on the basis of an information-analytical methodology. Two permanent Ukrainian media projects of the Internews-Ukraine: Revision of History and Propagandarium, which work intensively in the Russian-speaking regions of Ukraine creating and broadcasting the image of the Russian as the Other by methods of aggressive anti-Russian propaganda are considered. We also analyze the activity of the Lugansk cultural site “Dandelion”, which has been operating in Lugansk since 2015 and reflects the cultural life of the city and the republic during this period. An analysis of the site’s materials shows that in the republic in wartime conditions, Russian and world culture is preserved and mastered, intensive work is underway to integrate the republics of Donbass into the cultural space of modern Russia, relying on the historical memory of these territories. The article substantiates that Ukrainian culture is currently a borderland culture, since the image of the Other as the Russian dominates its structure and is imposed on the Russians of Ukraine by propaganda methods. At the same time, the culture of modern Donbass is developing as Russian culture in which the image of the Other as a modern Ukrainian, a carrier of anti-Russian identity is formed. Keywords: Russia, Ukraine, Donbass, borderland culture, the image of the Other, anti-Russian propaganda

scholarly journals «Memory of the city» and «memory in the city»: the heuristic resources of the waven concept of E. Toffler

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 73-81
Author(s):  
Nadiya Mikhno
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
The Past ◽  
Semiotic Approach ◽  
Places Of Memory ◽  
The City

In the article the possibility of application of the futures concept E. Toffler to explain changes in commemorating the objects and practices of the modern urban environment. The theoretical justification of the concept of "space" as one of the central categories of science, and it kind of "social space", that is, of course, the object of the social sciences and humanities, primarily sociological analysis. The proposed explanatory scheme the ratio of physical and social space. Provides an overview of the concept of "urban space" as a specific education between physical and social space. Attention is drawn to the possibility of using a semiotic approach to the identified issues within the urban space. Based on the semiotic approach identified the need in our study to consider certain points in urban space, which are able to perform the function of historical and social translation of the past – "places of memory", and their General set – «landscapes of memory». Moreover that «landscapes of memory» and a separate "places of memory" of urban space is a resource mapping of the historical and social memory in the city. For clarity, the conceptual-categorylink research system, a distinction between "social" and "historical" memory. Outline the General provisions of the wave concept E. Toffler, namely the explanation of the three "waves" which are defined by the author as a large-scale global process of social dynamics. Recorded discussion of memory through the circuit of the wave of change in society. For memory analysis in contemporary urban space using wave concept of E. Toffler made the distinction between the concepts "memory" and "memory in the city", which differ in the locality translocase images of the past: the particular city or events and personalities outside the city. The study carried out analysis of the characteristics of the existence of «places of memory» and related commemorative practices in the contemporary and divergent of the future city, based on the idea regarding relationship E. Toffler’s "Second wave" and "Third wave" in modern society.

scholarly journals Between Trauma and Oblivion: Actualizing the Historical Memory of the West Siberian Peasant Uprising of 1921

2021 ◽  
pp. 178-188
Author(s):  
V. P. Kliueva ◽  
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N. A. Liskevich ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Local History ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Cultural Trauma ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
The West ◽  
The Public ◽  
Post Soviet Period

The article is devoted to the historical memory of the West Siberian peasant uprising of 1921. In addition, the authors study the signs of cultural trauma among the descendants of the uprising’s participants and discuss the process of forgetting and accentuating trauma in local communities. The paper is based on field materials (2018) in the Tyumen region, supplemented by archival and published materials. During the Soviet period, the historical memory of the peasant uprising was represented through official publications and school education. According to the official point of view, the rebels, as people who protected their property, ended up in the negative category of the “Whites” or were completely excluded from the context of the events of the 1920s. Based on the description of cultural trauma (Eyerman), we argue that the memory of peasant uprisings became traumatic only in the post-Soviet period, after the formation of the opinion “all participants of the uprising are victims” in public space. Local history experts regularly reproduce social practices of commemoration in the Tyumen region. However, these practices have not become part of the public discourse. The reason for this is the loss of family memory replaced by collective historical memory.

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