МЕМОРИАЛЬНАЯ КУЛЬТУРА МЕЖДУ ПАМЯТЬЮ И ЗАБВЕНИЕМ: МНОГООБРАЗИЕ ИНТЕРПРЕТАЦИЙ ИЛИ КРИЗИС ПОСТМОДЕРНИСТСКОЙ ПАРАДИГМЫ?

For many years in the humanities, the dispute over the problems of historical memory, historical politics, creating diverse interpretations of the transmission of the past, has not failed. Against the background of this variety of terms and approaches, it is still possible to notice some similarities in the views of scientists with regard to individual methodological problems. As already noted, historians have gradually come to agree that transnational memory is an illusion created within historical politics, as a kind of act of not accepting responsibility for the past, but solely for the purposes of “mnemonic security.” Most historians also tend to believe that the memory of tragedy has a more unifying effect on society than the memory of triumph. In addition, both the process of forming diverse concepts of historical memory and the factors affecting its transformation have already become an important element of the memorial culture of European society.