Historical policy of local communities in the system of formation of civic identity in the region

the historical policy of local communities is considered as a tool for the formation of identity and interethnic harmony. The research area was Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug-Yugra. The methods used were a sociological survey of citizens, as well as a content analysis of regulatory documents. It is concluded that the policy implemented by local communities in the field of formation of interethnic harmony and memory policy is purposeful and systematic. It has sufficient regulatory support and represents the "completion" of federal and regional policy in the field of interethnic relations, the formation of civic identity by means of historical policy and is a necessary part of the functioning of a vertically integrated national system in this area. The factors that ensure the effectiveness of the local community in this area include, in most cases, the presence of special bodies that coordinate the work of its main actors, as well as the transparency of their financing. The study recorded fairly high rates of civic self-identification of respondents, patriotic attitudes in the minds of the majority of respondents. The hypothesis of the role of historical politics in the formation of civic identity as the basis of interethnic harmony is confirmed. It is noted that at the conceptual level, municipal programs to ensure interethnic harmony and the work of coordinating councils, as a rule, do not make a semantic connection with the concept of identity, and as a means of achieving it, attention is not focused on using the possibilities of historical politics. This not only significantly impoverishes the system of events, but also affects the infrastructure of symbolic policy actors at the local level and leads to weak participation in the work of civil society institutions, which is compulsively mixed by the dominance of administrative bodies of municipal power. Historical policy is proposed as a semantic conceptualization of the practices of local communities in the formation of national and regional identity.

historical politics, memory politics, local communities, identity, interethnic harmony