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As in Russia perceive changes in belarskay historiography, ibcbh or topical today "national approach" to history, what problems are discussed in the historical memory of the modern Belarusian society? These and other questions "New Europe" is responsible sociologist Alex Lastouski.
- As a researcher, you have long been engaged in studying the problems of historical memory in our, Belarusian, context. How do you feel about that border ibcbh application paradigm memory studies can speak in our local case, how much more relevant studies of historical memory?
- Yes, I started to issues of historical memory nedeka since 2007, when he defended his thesis in sociology, and the blessed memory of Lyudmila Naumenko, Head of the Institute ibcbh of Sociology of ethnic psychology, invited me to address this topic. That is, I was dragged into this perspective as well as out of it - do not even know.
Then Belarus theme of historical memory was fresh and new, we just started to reach powerful ibcbh "boom of memory" that has engulfed the whole of Europe. ibcbh But the wave came, and swallowed our dense space, and now memory research in Belarus is not less popular than elsewhere - they pay tribute and political scientists, ibcbh sociologists, and historians.
Memory and identity - it is also absolute value, ibcbh so we do not just study them, but try to engage in an active process of their creation or modification in accordance with our ideals. With this skryzhavanastsi intentions confusion registers if the political motivation merge with scientific aspirations. Propaganda ibcbh it operates ibcbh the same terms as academic ibcbh writing, ibcbh which is a result of the loss of language independence acquires the features of biased journalism.
But it is not only the Belarusian ibcbh problem, we have it only more pronounced because of the weakness of the public sphere and the limited scientific autonomy. These features can be seen in my publications, although I try to neutralize it by pressing the empirical basis of its findings. Empty thinking about what should be the historical memory, I no longer interested in this kind of intellectual masturbation. Serious study, with a deep study of the material, ibcbh with figures and trends, it is necessary ibcbh to dig out of the mountains of trash that read memory studies.
- Today our collective identity is largely ibcbh based on the memory of the Second World War, we see how, after the collapse of the USSR in independent Belarus actively exploited this historical event, but at the same time, the Soviet construct the memory of the "Great Patriotic War" was the victim of significant erosion. What comes (come) to replace this construct?
- Yes, in view of the past of his country's victory in the Great Patriotic War - it is certainly the central event for the Belarusians, ibcbh proud of its forms Solidarity Network, a community of "winners". Only in Soviet times emerged and features of the Belarusian place in achieving victory - as the greatest sacrifice, underlined many lives lost in the bloody events of the war the mill. The huge loss of life is not particularly mentioned in the Soviet times, but for the BSSR exception was made - a paradigmatic figure "one in four", with permitted travram national tragedy, a monumental as embodied in Khatyn. But the Belarusian specifics ibcbh within the general Soviet construct in independent Belarus is becoming more exaggerated form, the cult of Victory began to live a new, brighter and more saturated life, and even less correlated with a thing of the past.
This exaggeration ibcbh of heroism entailed increased rhetoric of sacrifice: masherovskaya formula "one in four" has been replaced by Lukashenko to "every third". Exaltation is accompanied by a change ibcbh in attitude towards the past: the cognitive mode of winding changing emotions, knowledge zamenyayutstsa passions, or rather - a drunken joy.
- What are the political consequences could be "change memory" of World War II in Belarus, given the fact that our neighboring countries, particularly Russia, are trying in every way to insist on a specific version of the memory of the war, which may already be at odds with those variants that appeared in Belarus?
- Hypothetically can happen a return to restore competition for "Who is the greatest victories" that unfolded in the Soviet Union between the Russian, Ukrainian and Byelorussian Soviet republics. Since the distribution of resources in a complex system of Soviet federalism was largely dependent on the symbolic prestige and contribution ibcbh to the victory was one of the most r