Sevastopol Images in Soviet Cultural Memory
Journal: Russian Foundation for Basic Research Journal Humanities and social sciences
Year: 2019

Key images of Sevastopol typical for the Soviet epoch, motives and mechanisms of their formation were found out and analysed in the article. Based on studies of various types of histo­rical records, authors drew a conclusion that cultural memory of the Soviet society maintained several predominant images of Sevastopol. “Fortress city”, “hero city” and “holiday city” were the most common ones. These images carried several ideas such as a battle between light and darkness (the good and the bad) ba