Shorokhova, I. V., Volokhova, V. V. SOVIET ANNIVERSARY AS AN INSTRUMENT OF MEMORY POLICY (ON THE EXAMPLE OF CELEBRATION OF ANNIVERSARY OF THE STATE OF KARELIA) // Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University. 2020. Vol. 42. No 8. P. 72–84. DOI: 10.15393/uchz.art.2020.552


Russian history

SOVIET ANNIVERSARY AS AN INSTRUMENT OF MEMORY POLICY (ON THE EXAMPLE OF CELEBRATION OF ANNIVERSARY OF THE STATE OF KARELIA)

Shorokhova
I. V. 		Petrozavodsk State University
Volokhova
V. V. 		Petrozavodsk State University
Keywords:
politics of memory
holiday culture
Soviet mass holidays
cultural memory
the history of Karelia
commemoration of a historical event		 Summary: Anniversaries of Karelia are considered as an information occasion for the appearance of a series of publications on the history of the region on the pages of the main republican newspaper “Leninskaya Pravda”. Preparations for the festivities allowed the local authorities to reproduce the image of the past on the pages of the print media. It was a justification of the legitimacy of the existing government. Due to the representation of the past in anniversary publications the history of the statehood of Karelia in the 1940–1980s was “inscribed” in the historical tradition of the formation and development of the Soviet state. The crisis of relations between the republic and the union center of the 1990s, economic difficulties and growing national contradictions led to attempts by the authorities of Karelia to use the past to justify a new political course.



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