Print Andrea Graziosi New archival documents of the Soviet era: source criticism* [1] Introduction In 1991, what shocked me most as a historian was the news that the Russian archives had in fact been opened, although it seemed that the loud promises generously distributed in this regard in the late 1980s would never come to fruition. At that time, I was finishing many years of work on the biography of G. L. Pyatakov, one of the Bolshevik leaders.

Print Polina Naumenko , Yulia Rybalkina The city that doesn't exist... [1] There was a time - they gave it in gold [2] This summer our city froze in anticipation: will he come or won’t he come? Everything was cleaned, swept, prepared for the meeting. Where necessary, new asphalt was laid, trees were whitewashed, and road markings were updated. There was a lot of talk and discussion about President Putin's upcoming visit to Rostov and, possibly, Novocherkassk.

Print Alexander Ignatenko You can understand what is happening with Islam today if you start from the fact that Islam in its foundations is a religion of Divine Revelation. Absolutely reliable, but abundantly supplemented by human fabrications, which cannot be absolutely reliable by definition, because they are human.

L. B. Wolftsun. From the Corbie Scriptorium to the Age of Enlightenment: From the history of the study of Western European culture in Russia. St. Petersburg: Phoenix, 2008. 248 p., ill. “I think about science with painful passion,” wrote A.D. Lyublinskaya to her husband in the fall of 1941 from the Perm evacuation to besieged Leningrad.

What were you doing on June 17, 1953? [1] I would like to present here some conclusions drawn from the oral evidence that we were able to record in 1987 in the industrial centers of the GDR. Among other things, we asked our respondents: “Where were you on June 17 [2] and what were you doing on that day?” I proceed from the assumption that the experience acquired on June 17, 1953, largely predetermined what happened in the future: it influenced both the way people thought and acted.

WHAT REMAINS OF AUSCHWITZ. ARCHIVE AND CERTIFICATE [1] Abstract Giorgio Agamben was born in 1942 in Rome, graduated from the Faculty of Law of the capital's La Sapienza University, but was always close to literary and artistic circles, was friends with Alberto Moravia and his wife Elsa Morante, with Ingeborg Bachmann, in Paris with Pierre Klossovsky, Italo Calvino , Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze.

Review Print Boris Stepanov History and memory: Historical culture of Europe before the beginning of modern times / Ed. L.P. Repina. M.: Krug, 2006. 768 p. The popularity of the topic of memory in the community of historians is associated with fundamental problems of modern society, which could not but affect the sphere of knowledge about the past.

What they cooked, they forgot in the oven. Russian proverb There are several turning points in the life of Russia, after which the course of our country’s history turned sharply - these are, for example, the Baptism of Rus', the Tatar-Mongol invasion, the reforms of Peter I, the October Revolution.

Halbwachs M. Social frames of memory / Per. s French and introduction Article C. N. Zenkina. M.: Novoe izdatelstvo, 2007. 346 p. “Anyone who begins to tell stories about dogs in the company of ordinary, not very persistent people commits an unforgivable sin. Once someone starts, everyone present feels the need to tell an even better story.” An anecdote that inopportunely came to mind for the character of Jerome K.

The author of the essay - Professor MGIMO, “Doctor of Sciences” (unfortunately, did not indicate which) and deputy of the Duma Vladimir Medinsky - set out to trace how negative myths about Russia and Russians were formed. The intention is certainly good, since the study and comprehension of problems associated with national self -identification and the functioning of the “image of another” in the mass consciousness are recognized directions of modern historical science.

Artist and photographer Jan Peter Tripp (b. 1945) is one of the most significant figures for the late period of work of the German writer and critic Winfried Georg (Max) Sebald (1944-2001), who died in a car accident in East Anglia, where he lived for more than thirty years. , - “a period of crisis in Max’s life and his work, full of mysteries, conflicts and contradictions that he chose not to explain” [1] .

Print Boris Stepanov An appeal to memory is a symptom of the collapse of historical consciousness, the need to overcome the gaps that have arisen in the picture of history, to restore its coherence and one’s connection with it at the moment when the previous forms of this connection lose their naturalness. It is characteristic that attempts to restore in this way the “sequence of history” (J.

Abstract [1] The main thesis of the book by French ethnologist and writer Marc Auger is that oblivion is no less necessary for man and society than memory. Moreover, memory itself cannot function without forgetting: in order to mentally return to the ancient past, it is necessary to forget the immediate past.

Print Svetlana Eremeeva We are what we agree to remember. Memory is both a condition for identity and a tool for creating it; it forms identity at the individual and collective levels. The practices used are different. Witnessing itself, collective memory turns to visual reference points: it is carried out into the public space, materializing, including in public monuments.

FROM THE BOOK “IMAGES DESPITE ALL” [1] In August 1944, prisoners from the “special forces” of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp (Auschwitz-Brzezinka), who were engaged in processing and burning corpses unloaded from gas chambers, managed to sneak a camera into the crematorium secretly from the SS men and take four photographs depicting the process of mass extermination of people.