List of issues > Series «History». 2023. Vol 45
Historical Memory on the Civil War in Modern Russian
Society: New Actors and Old Themes
Author(s)
D. V. Kozlov, M. N. Sosnovsky
Abstract
The book “Memory Politics and the Russian Civil War” by M. Laruel and M. Karnysheva
is reviewed. It is emphasized that the publication may be of interest to the reader who is just getting
acquainted with the field of memory studies. It is concluded that the authors of the reviewed publication follow a simplified idea of the confrontation during the Civil War, reducing the conflict exclusively to the confrontation of “whites” and “reds”, which does not correspond at all to modern historical knowledge. It is also noted that almost the entire narrative is built exclusively around the
memory of pre-revolutionary Russia and the “whites” and the reviewed book cannot be considered as
a generalizing work on the topic of the Civil War in Russia.
About the Authors
Kozlov Dmitrii Victorovich, Associate Professor of the Department of World History and International Relations, Director of Irkutsk CASE, Irkutsk State University, 1, K. Marx st., Irkutsk, 664003, Russian Federation, е-mail: dvk@home.isu.ru
Sosnovsky Mikhail Nikolaevich, Undegraduate, Faculty of History, Irkutsk State University, 1, K. Marx st., Irkutsk, 664003, Russian Federation, e-mail: mixa00742@mail.ru
For citation
Kozlov D.V., Sosnovsky M.N. Historical Memory on the Civil War in Modern Russian Society: New Actors and
Old Themes. The Bulletin of Irkutsk State University. Series History, 2023, vol. 45, pp. 112-117. https://doi.org/10.26516/2222-9124.2023.45.112 (in Russian)
Keywords
Civil War, historical memory, actors, state, Orthodox Church, Russian society, narrative.
UDC
94(47)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.26516/2222-9124.2023.45.112
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