The historical consciousness of student youth and evaluation of the events of the Great Patriotic War

Sergei P Kostrikov,Elena V Kryukova,Yuliya P Nadekhina,Andrey A Kolchin,Stanislav S Kostrikov,N.A Orekhovskaya

doi:10.1051/shsconf/202110301006

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Abstract

It is not the first year that the information space has been marked by trends in the revision of evaluations of the events of the Great Patriotic War. Student youth are actively and rapidly developing, adapting to the new social realities. That is why the issues of preserving historical memory and developing the historical consciousness of contemporary young people have become so relevant. The present work is based on the analysis of the survey results of the 1st and 2nd-year students conducted at the State University of Management (SUM, Moscow, Russia), and is a continuation of the research devoted to the evaluation of the end results of the Great Patriotic War in the perception of University students. An attempt was made to determine the level of students’ knowledge about the main facts of the Great Patriotic War. Within the framework of this study, the results of similar works by domestic and foreign authors were considered. As a rule, in Russia, the problem of awareness of the importance of the Great Patriotic War is emphasized in terms of its results, including the perception of these issues by student youth. At the same time, several foreign authors put forward the issue of reevaluating the results of the Second World War and make it with clear politicization of the proposed conclusions, primarily, in determining the historical responsibility for war unleashing. The authors of the present study propose to strengthen the role of archival documents, memoirs, chronicles, and testimonies of direct participants and victims of the wartime events in military-historical education, which should not allow distorting the historical feat of the USSR and its decisive contribution to the defeat of Nazi Germany.

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The issues of historical memory and historical consciousness are important in the formation of active civic-minded young people
The hypothesis of the present study is the statement of the quantitative growth of people with a distorted or fragmentary view of historical events related to the Great Patriotic War, which was not least caused by increased attempts to falsify the historical past
The study has identified a problem associated with a decrease in the level of knowledge of young people about specific historical facts, including the Great Patriotic War

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The issues of historical memory and historical consciousness are important in the formation of active civic-minded young people. These issues are becoming even more relevant. By the beginning of the 90s, the events of the Great Patriotic War were largely interpreted in the same way in Russia and abroad. In recent years, several Western countries have been reviewing the place and role of various states in the Second World War (WWII). Current information technologies allow spreading these opinions to the widest possible audience, and, first of all, the young people, who, unlike their parents, know little about the events 75 years ago

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