HISTORICAL MEMORY OF THE YOUTH ABOUT THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR OF 1941–1945: ON THE EXAMPLE OF STUDENTS OF HIGHER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS IN CHUVASHIA

Alexander D. Grigoriev, Aleksey V. Karpov, Мikhail Yu. Kharitonov

DOI: 10.47026/1810-1909-2020-4-28-35

Key words

the Great Patriotic war, historical memory, students of Chuvashia, factors and significance of Victory.

Annotation

The article considers some elements that reflect the state of historical memory about the Great Patriotic war of 1941–1945 among the students of Chuvashia. To identify them, the authors used the materials of an empirical research conducted among students of higher educational institutions of the Chuvash Republic in March 2020 by the Chuvash State Institute of Humanities with the participation of individual authors of the article. In the course of this study, a total of 324 students from five Cheboksary higher educational institutions were interviewed. The data obtained have not yet been used in scientific publications. From this point of view, they represent an original source of information for analyzing the problems of preserving the historical memory about the Great Patriotic War among out-of-school youth and students. The paper consistently examines the level of students’ interest in the military events of 1941–1945, in the sources of information about the main facts and heroes and identifies opinions about the significance of a set of factors that played a significant role in achieving the victory over fascism. As a result of summarizing the data obtained in the course of an empirical research, different opinions of respondents about the significance of the USSR victory in the Great Patriotic war are presented. The obtained materials show that the majority of students show a considerable interest in the events and facts of the war, correctly characterize the sources, results and historical consequences of the victory over the Hitlerite Germany. The results of the study provide an opportunity for lecturers of higher educational institutions to take into account the data obtained in the process of organizing the effective use of various sources on the history of the war, to apply the materials obtained not only in educational work but in awareness-raising work as well.

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Information about the authors

Alexander D. Grigoriev – Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor, Department of Archeology, Ethnography and Regional History, Chuvash State University, Russia, Cheboksary (pu-900pis@yandex.ru; ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7530-7937).

Aleksey V. Karpov – Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor, Department of Document Science, Information Resources and Auxiliary Historical Disciplines, Chuvash State University, Russia, Cheboksary (alekkarp@yandex.ru; ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0770-5129).

Mikhail Yu. Kharitonov – Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor, Head of Department of Document Science, Information Resources and Auxiliary Historical Dis­ciplines, Chuvash State University, Russia, Cheboksary (muha21@mail.ru).

For citations

Grigoriev A.D., Karpov A.V., Kharitonov М.Yu. HISTORICAL MEMORY OF THE YOUTH ABOUT THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR OF 1941–1945: ON THE EXAMPLE OF STUDENTS OF HIGHER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS IN CHUVASHIA. Vestnik Chuvashskogo universiteta, 2020, no. 4, pp. 28–35. DOI: 10.47026/1810-1909-2020-4-28-35 (in Russian).

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