DOI 10.51255/2311–603X_2025_2_9

E. Yu. Zubkova. “Victory and the Great Farewell”: Collective Memory and the Policy of Remembering the Great Patriotic War. 1945–1965 // Petersburg Historical Journal, no. 2, 2025, pp. 9–21

Abstract:

In the Russian context, multiple memories of the war coexist, with one type forming spontaneously as a “living” experience of what was lived through, and the other emerging as the result of a targeted state project, driven by a policy on constructing memory. To what extent did the state commemorative project take into account the public demand for remembrance of the war? Furthermore, what objectives did the state memory policy pursue in creating the image of the Great Patriotic War? In what ways did this image manifest itself in various memorial formats? The present article is devoted to these and other issues of the formation of memory of the war — from Victory Day 1945 to Victory Day 1965.


Key words: Great Patriotic War, collective memory, memory policy, commemorative project.

Author:

Zubkova, Elena Yurievna — Dr. in History, Chief Researcher, Head of the Centre for the Social
History of Russia, Institute of Russian History, Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russia).
E-mail: elena.zubkova@mail.ru

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