Siberian Federal University

Issue

Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2016 9 (7)

Authors

Sporov, Dmitriy B.

Contact information

Sporov, Dmitriy B.:Lomonosov Moscow State University 1 Leninskie Gory, Moscow, 119991, Russia; E-mail:

Keywords

oral history; archeography; digital archives; online-archivists; Soviet history; wiki-chrestomaty; national memory; ideocracy

Abstract

The article disscusses some questions, which emerged during the work with the Moscow State University’s collection of recorded oral memories. What are the possibilities and the challenges which face the online-archivists? Is there a need to create some new type of the chrestomaty – a wiki-chrestomaty – i.e. a project, constantly updated by every active user? The work with the memoirs shows us that the conceptual constructs which are usually called national memory, places of memory, collective memory etc., are very versatile. Why? We think that the soviet doublethinking which has become civilizational code, has shaped the relationships with the past. Digital modularity gives the possibility to remember and to create the points of assemblage and to accept the past. Every person we talk with, with all the limitless variability of the subjects and opinions, says that for the past 100 years there weren’t any family that didn’t confront a catastrophe. That’s why in the context of the extreme instability of the common representation of past the stories of people, who achieved some success in creative history of the last century, are very important

Pages

1615-1617

Paper at repository of SibFU

https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/20415

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