Individual and collective historical memory

the purpose of the article is to describe the results of the study of historical memory. In this article, based on interviews, the most significant events of individual and collective historical memory are identified and analyzed. The author notes that the state policy of memory is aimed at counteracting the falsification of history, strengthening civic consciousness and patriotism and includes national and state symbols, official approaches to the interpretation of historical events, as well as regional, socio-cultural, generational and other fields of commemoration, within which the understanding of significant historical achievements of society and the state occurs. Based on the conducted research, the author came to the conclusion that organized forms of public commemoration and personal testimonies, memories of the historical process are often in confrontation, challenging the understanding of the meaning of a particular historical phenomenon. Students perceive the most important stages of the historical process to be those that have become an important part of personal or family experience and are traumatic: participation in voluntary or forced displacements, wars and military conflicts, man-made disasters. Practical application of the article’s conclusions: creation of archives of historical family memory of students.

identity, historical memory, historical consciousness of youth, individual historical memory, collective historical memory