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Selecting the Past: The Politics of Memory in Moscow's History Museums
Author(s) -
Khazanov Anatoly M.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
city and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.308
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 1548-744X
pISSN - 0893-0465
DOI - 10.1525/city.2000.12.2.35
Subject(s) - politics , interpretation (philosophy) , power (physics) , collective memory , state (computer science) , politics of memory , historical memory , russian history , history , sociology , political science , art , humanities , economic history , law , philosophy , linguistics , physics , algorithm , quantum mechanics , computer science
Moscow's historical museums reflect a complex interrelationship of power, knowledge, and memory in contemporary Russia. Social and political changes in the country have produced enormous rifts between new and old values and memories, and the museums as mediums for the interpretations of die past are prone to manipulation by different political forces. History is contested. However die Moscow historical museums, especially those that belong to die state, still do not demonstrate a fundamental break from Soviet interpretation of the past. At best they are only beginning to develop a multi‐focused approach to the Russian and Soviet past. (Moscow, museums, politics, contested history, collective memory]