Историческая память о Гражданской войне в современном российском обществе: новые акторы и старые темы

Abstract

The book “Memory Politics and the Russian Civil War” by M. Laruel and M. Karnysheva is reviewed. It is emphasized that the publication may be of interest to the reader who is just getting acquainted with the field of memory studies. It is concluded that the authors of the reviewed publication follow a simplified idea of the confrontation during the Civil War, reducing the conflict exclusively to the confrontation of “whites” and “reds”, which does not correspond at all to modern historical knowledge. It is also noted that almost the entire narrative is built exclusively around the memory of pre-revolutionary Russia and the “whites” and the reviewed book cannot be considered as a generalizing work on the topic of the Civil War in Russia.