Navigating Difficult Pasts
Journal: Palgrave Macmillan memory studies
Year: 2025

Abstract This chapter examines of the role of difficult pasts in post-Soviet tourism industries and reveals how these pasts are dealt with by guides and tourists. Russian tourists displayed different attitudes to sites associated with memories of imperial violence and (national) victimhood, ranging from a cosmopolitanism to pluralist positions and conscious avoidance. Confronted with transnational memory conflicts and heterogeneous audiences, tour guides used a range of strategies to communicate