Nostalgia for the Soviet Past in the Mass Historical Consciousness of Modern Russians
Journal: University of Bucharest Review Literary and Cultural Studies Series
Year: 2021

In modern Russia, there is a clear discrepancy between the official policy of historical memory and the mass historical consciousness. In the politics of official memory, Joseph Stalin is a tyrant, a dictator who killed millions of people. In the mass historical consciousness, he is a fighter against corruption and privileges, a caring owner of a huge country. While the mass historical consciousness considers the Victory in the Great Patriotic War as a significant event of the twentieth century,