Historical Consciousness of Russians – a Book and its Problematic Field

Historical Consciousness of Russians – a Book and its Problematic Field


Romanovskiy N.V.

Dr. Sci. (Hist.), Chief Researcher of the Institute Sociology of FCTAS RAS; Professor of the Russian State University for Humanities; Deputy Head Editor “Sociological Studies” journal, Moscow, Russia socis@isras.ru

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Romanovskiy N.V. Historical Consciousness of Russians – a Book and its Problematic Field. Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya [Sociological Studies]. 2023. No 11. P. 144-150




Abstract

It is not the first time that historical consciousness of Russians becomes a subject of attention for Russian sociologists. In this case, however, the monograph prepared by the scholars of an Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences has a number of features of its own. The authors team focuses on the links of historical consciousness with the civic identity of Russians, actualized, in particular, by current military operations and by Russophobia in the “collective West”, etc. The book stands out for its compositional originality – a combination of field research data analysis with commentaries on the problems arising in connection with this analysis by experts from different fields of activity and disciplinary scholarly profiles. A promising interconnection of the issues raised by the study with the development of government national policy guidelines, as well as importance of scholarly elaborations of the modern national history problems are noted.


Keywords
public consciousness; historical consciousness; “memory boom”; interest in the past; Russian identity; ethnic identity; civil identity
Content No 11, 2023