Remembering war, remaining Soviet: Digital commemoration of World War II in Putin’s Russia

Bernstein, Seth

doi:10.1177/1750698015605573

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“…Like Brezhnev a few decades earlier, Putin employed the narrative of the Soviet victory for national consolidation. This process involved not only the invention of new commemorative rituals such as the use of the Saint George ribbon (Kolstø 2016), but also the instigation of restrictions on Second World War research in Russia and the introduction of the uniformed perspective on teaching about the war (Bernstein 2016). Through these means, Russian authorities consolidated their monopoly on public remembrance of the Second World War.…”

Section: Victory Day As Part Of a Changing Memory Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The Victory Day is a central element of cultural remembrance of the Second World War in the post-socialist space (Gudkov 2005;Trubina 2010;Bernstein 2016). For this reason, the jubilee event in 2015 attracted significant coverage both in traditional and online media, which also used this occasion to reinforce their representation and interpretation of the Ukraine crisis.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Past Is Another Resource: Remembering the 70th Anniversary of the Victory Day on LiveJournal

Makhortykh

Lyebyedyev²,

Kravtsov³

2020

Nationalities Papers

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In our article we examine changes experienced by media and memory systems in Russia since the beginning of the Ukraine crisis. Using as an example a popular Russian blogging platform, LiveJournal, we scrutinize how the digital practices related to commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany are influenced by the growing instrumentalization of Second World War memory for media propaganda and manipulation. Using topic modeling to analyze a large set of data on Russian users’ interactions with the platform, we examine how hegemonic and alternative interpretations of the Second World War interact on LiveJournal and how their interactions are influenced by the growing antagonism between Russia and the West. Our findings suggest that LiveJournal constitutes a fractured memory system, which is characterized by uneven representation of Second World War experiences and the growing influence of pro-government actors promoting hegemonic war narratives. However, our observations also show that instrumentalization of the past in the context of the Ukraine crisis does not necessarily interfere with digital practices of Second World War commemoration with the latter remaining unaffected by the events in Ukraine.

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Section: Victory Day As Part Of a Changing Memory Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Past Is Another Resource: Remembering the 70th Anniversary of the Victory Day on LiveJournal

Makhortykh

Lyebyedyev²,

Kravtsov³

2020

Nationalities Papers

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“…Lotman, L.P. Repin, L.N. Mazur, S. Bernstein (Halbwax, 2005Nora, 1989;Assmann, 2011;Ricker, 2004;Lotman, 1976Lotman, , 1992Repina, 2003Repina, , 2016Mazur, 2015;Bernstein, 2016) were engaged in research of this area. Recently, new trends in the study of memory problems related to the media and blogosphere have appeared (Hoskins, 2009;Schwarz, 2014;Trubina, 2010Trubina, , 2018Van Dijck, 2007;Youngblood, 2007;Macdonald, 2013).…”

Section: Man In the World Of Culture Issues Of Commotionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Human in the world of culture: the great patriotic war in the historical and cultural heritage of northeast of Russia (on the example of Yakutia)

Sivtseva

Parfenova

2019

SHS Web Conf.

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The historical and cultural heritage, expressed in monuments, architectural structures, dedicated to the Great Patriotic War, today is significant. The purpose of the article is to determine the role of society in perpetuating the memory of the Great Patriotic War. The authors conclude that the events of World War II find a lively response from the public. At the same time, new tendencies in commemorative practices are traced - tragic pages of history that until recently were “uncomfortable” (and in Soviet times banned for research), such as human losses, extremely high mortality of the civilian population from hunger, forcibly transferred to special settlements, - began to be reflected in the construction of monuments, memorable places. The location of these monuments is specific - they were erected at a certain distance from public places, at the territories of churches (victims of famine, victims of political repressions), which is associated with the predicted ambiguity of their perception.

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“…Research on Internet-based memory and remembrance has become increasingly common in recent years (e.g. Bernstein, 2015; Garde-Hansen et al, 2009; Kaprāns, 2016; Maj and Riha, 2009; Van Dijck, 2007). When approaching this literature, it is possible to distinguish between research that deals with online remembrance, on one hand, and research focused on the Internet as a technology of memory, on the other.…”

Section: Online Collective Memorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Chinese collective memory on the Internet: Remembering the Great Famine in online encyclopaedias

Gustafsson

2017

Memory Studies

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Recent research on how the Great Chinese Famine was debated on Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter, in 2012 suggests that information and communication technologies can challenge official versions of the past and increase pluralism in collective memory narratives in authoritarian states. This article suggests that analysing change in the treatment of the famine in Chinese online encyclopaedias during and following the debate helps us further explore the debate's impact. Moreover, it allows us to determine the extent to which Chinese online encyclopaedias function as the type of memory place that previous research on Wikipedia in other contexts might lead us to expect. The article concludes that the changes made to the narratives about the Great Famine in Chinese online encyclopaedias following the debate were rather limited and that the Chinese online encyclopaedias have not yet developed into participatory and pluralistic memory places that challenge official narratives.

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Remembering war, remaining Soviet: Digital commemoration of World War II in Putin’s Russia

Cited by 38 publications

References 36 publications

Past Is Another Resource: Remembering the 70th Anniversary of the Victory Day on LiveJournal

Past Is Another Resource: Remembering the 70th Anniversary of the Victory Day on LiveJournal

Human in the world of culture: the great patriotic war in the historical and cultural heritage of northeast of Russia (on the example of Yakutia)

Chinese collective memory on the Internet: Remembering the Great Famine in online encyclopaedias

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