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Instrumentalization of the past in modern policy of historical memory in Latvia
- Authors: Kirchanoff M.V.1
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Affiliations:
- Voronezh State University
- Issue: No 5 (2024)
- Pages: 45-59
- Section: International relations
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/0869-0499/article/view/281112
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.31857/S0869049924050046
- EDN: https://elibrary.ru/JUTGKS
- ID: 281112
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The aim of the study is to analyze the instrumentalization of history as an element of political culture used to legitimize elites and consolidate identity. The novelty of the approach is associated with the study of the current stage in the development of historical policy in Latvia. It is shown that the intellectual community of Latvia makes a secondary contribution to the transformation of memorial culture, while the main agents of historical policy have become representatives of the elites, whose utilitarian understanding of the past stimulates politically and ideologically motivated usage of history, which is integrated into the space of political culture and nationalistic discourse.
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Maksym V. Kirchanoff
Voronezh State University
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Email: maksym_kyrchanoff@hotmail.com
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-3819-3103
Doctor of Sciences (History), Associate Professor, Department of Regional Studies and Economics of Foreign Countries, Faculty of International Relations, Associate Professor, Department of History of Foreign Countries and Oriental Studies, Faculty of History
Russian Federation, Universitetskaya sq., 1, Voronezh, 394000References
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