Features of Constructing the Memory of the Great Patriotic War: An Example of the Former Soviet Republics of Central Asia and Kazakhstan
https://doi.org/10.55959/MSU2070-1381-113(S)-2025-25-33
Abstract
Constructing the memory of the Great Patriotic War has become an urgent research problem due to the growing attempts to recode public consciousness in post-Soviet countries aimed at victimizing identity, especially of the younger generation, and rejecting the continuity of historical development, primarily in relation to the Soviet period, within the framework of the new nation-building. It is the period of the Great Patriotic War that is characterized by the most positive context in the historiography of the former Soviet republics of Central Asia and Kazakhstan (Central Asia). The aim of this study is to identify the main achievements, key features and analyze the main trends in the historiography of the former republics of Central Asia and Kazakhstan about the Great Patriotic War. The research is based on the principles of historicism, consistency, objectivity and is implemented by methods of classification, comparison, analysis and synthesis, problem-chronological, etc. As a result, the specifics of the historiography of the countries of Central Asia and Kazakhstan are established as a reflection of contradictions in the policy of nation-building and methodological approaches to the Soviet period of history, contradictions in the construction of historical memory of the Great Patriotic War. Thematic and problematic blocks are identified as well as country differences in the content of the source base, the study of economic problems, social and cultural development, military exploits of representatives of the titular peoples, the history of evacuation. The specifics of the contextualization of historiographical space and public consciousness are noted. The conclusion is made about the difficult state of historiography in the former republics of Central Asia and Kazakhstan, methodological equipment and discursive practices of research on the Great Patriotic War. It is noted that there is a need to develop cooperation between historians of Russia and post-Soviet countries aimed at providing a comprehensive and objective study of the entire Soviet period of joint history, preserving the legacy of intercultural solidarity and unity of the multinational Eurasian civilization.
About the Author
D. A. Amanzholova
Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences,
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Dina A. Amanzholova, DSc (Historical Sciences)
Moscow
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Amanzholova D.A. Features of Constructing the Memory of the Great Patriotic War: An Example of the Former Soviet Republics of Central Asia and Kazakhstan. Public Administration. E-journal (Russia). 2025;(113(S)):25-33. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.55959/MSU2070-1381-113(S)-2025-25-33
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