Abstract
Maria Ferretti, Stalinism between history and memory : the malaise of Russian memory. The article studies the memory of Stalinism in Russia, from the age of perestroika to our own time. It distinguishes between dif ferent stages of Russia's conflict with her past, the obstacles that have hampered it, the temptation to repress it and the refusal to assume traumatic past. The article shows how, during the Yeltsin years, there was an attempt purely and simply to efface the Soviet past - as if it were a bad parenthesis - and to construct an idealized image of Tsarist Russia. But the disillusionment provoked by the brutal introduction of capitalism and the failed promises of neo-liberalism have caused a massively impoverished population to take refuge in nationalism
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