Academic anatomy of the memory of “The City of Russian Glory”. Review of Volkov, E.V., N.S. Zhuravleva, and I.V. Sibiryakov. “Leningrada chernomorskii brat”: Sevastopol' v sovetskoi kul'turnoi pamyati: monografiya [“Leningrad’s Black Sea brother”: Sevastopol in Soviet cultural memory]. Chelyabinsk: Izdatel'skii tsentr YuUrGU, 2021. (In Russian)
Journal: Historia provinciae – the journal of regional history(rus )
Year: 2022

The monograph under review is a successful attempt to reconstruct the place of Sevastopol in the cultural memory of the Soviet period by means of in-depth analysis of the system of discourse related to the history of this city, “places of memory,” and commemorative practices (with special attention to the celebration of historical anniversaries). The authors managed to create a holistic image of how the main stages in the history of the “City of Russian Glory” together with the related narrative