World War II and Great Patriotic War: Echo of Events

(Materials of the Round Table)

Abstract

In the modern discourse on war and cultural memory practices (Cultural Remembrance) the events of the wartime past are interpreted differently by new generations, because they did not witness these events. And those who fought and heard life stories about the war are leaving. Th ere are not many of them left. The memory line is torn. In the context of the Western culture of “places of memory”, there was appeared the concept of “post-memory”, which characterizes the third and further generations. Modern young Europeans find new content and attitude to the events of the past in it. The editorial Board of the journal offered today’s students – undergraduates and postgraduates – some questions about the “past war” in order to understand how it is experienced and
remembered in Russia.