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Political Loyalties And Collective Memory: Options For Reconciling The Identities Of “soviet Believers”Moscow University Bulletin. Series 12. Political Science. 2022. 1. p.66-78read more271
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The article is devoted to the analysis of the mechanisms of formation of a dual “Soviet-Orthodox” identity in the context of the dynamics of memory of the Soviet period of history. Variants of reconciliation of identities by Soviet citizens in the post-war years are considered. The study of the mechanisms of reconciliation of seemingly contradictory identities allows us to turn to the analysis of the influence of collective memory about significant events of the Soviet past. The main conclusion of the work is that it is necessary to share political loyalties as identification of oneself with state institutions and a plurality of cultural identities associated with collective memory. The memory of the Great Patriotic War, in particular, the construction of the crypto-Orthodox narratives of the Soviet leaders, plays an important role in uniting the Soviet and Orthodox identities.Keywords: Soviet identity; Orthodoxy; political loyalty; collective memory; the Great Patriotic War
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