Open AccessMemories of war and problems of forming defence consciousness by means of book business
Author(s) -
Сергей Николаевич Лютов
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
trudy gpntb so ran
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2712-7915
pISSN - 2618-7515
DOI - 10.20913/2618-7515-2020-3-41-48
Subject(s) - consciousness , battle , memoir , spanish civil war , rivalry , viewpoints , history , military history , law , aesthetics , sociology , literature , political science , epistemology , philosophy , art , visual arts , macroeconomics , archaeology , economics
Actuality and significance of problems of forming social consciousness with its necessary defence component are conditioned by unremitting tension of inter-state relations, transiting into a certain degree of war confrontation. Experience of all wars testifies to the fact that all victories in war hostility are achieved not only by rivalry of military potentials and generals’ skills but also by firmness of spiritual bases and people moral strengths. War history many times has proved patriotic incite and the society unity to be important factors influencing the course and the result of wars. Since the moment of writing invention, oral traditions began to be supplemented by document evidences of war history and invention of book printing not only has widened possibilities of memorable history events’ data circulation but also has transformed the printed word into effective means of information hostility of struggling sides. This article aim is to actualize problems, connected with transformations of war memories, and using book for to preserve it and form a defence component of public consciousness. Historical and book-study analysis of military publishing practice of the XVII–XX centuries proves the tradition of describing war history not only for to study battle experience by military specialists but also for to consolidate the tragedy and lessons of war in public consciousness. Memories of war cannot be similar for winners and losers, and that produces different evaluations of war events and their relevant reflection on pages of fundamental militaryhistorical works and memoirs. Comparison of different memorialists’ viewpoints confirms memory variability, but permits the researchers to approach evaluations that are more objective. To observe the 75-th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945 by carrying out the Year of memory and glory in Russia has become a new impulse for turning to historical memory and research of poorly studied problems. This war experience contains actual lessons of book usage as an important means of forming defence consciousness in the pre-war period and its reconstruction in the years of war.