Anniversaries of republics as a form of historical politics in the Turkic regions of Russia in the late 2010s and early 2020s
https://doi.org/10.18384/2310-676X-2022-4-104-116
Abstract
Aim. To analyze the memory politics as a political and intellectual phenomenon, its regional features and general patterns in the modern cultural and public spaces of Tatarstan, Bashkortostan and Chuvashia.
Methodology. The article is based on the methodological principles proposed in the memorial turn of modern historiography, which is focused on the studies of historical politics and memorial practices in political cultures of memory. The source base of the study is the mass media publications and documents of the state authorities of the national republics as the main participants in historical politics.
Results. The features of memorial politics are analyzed as well as the anniversaries of the national republics in 2019 and 2020 as elements of the memory politics. It is assumed that is mainly the state that shapes memory.
Research implications. The conclusions obtained actualize the universality of historical politics as a politics of memory. The author asserts the need for its further analysis. The statement of the inevitability of historical politics determines the need for comparative studies of memorial cultures.
About the Author
M. W. Kyrchanov
Voronezh State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Maxim W. Kyrchanov – Dr. Sci. (History), Assoc. Prof., Department of Regional Studies and Foreign Countries Economies, Faculty of International Relations, Department of History of Foreign Countries and Oriental Studies, Historical Faculty
Universitetskaya pl. 1, Voronezh 394000
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