Yusupov, M. M. Axiological and Historical Component of Social Memory

Abstract: The author of the article describes different types of collective memory and triggers of historical memory. Axiological and functional meaning of collective memory is described based on the example of attitudes to the Caucasian war. The author analyzes the relationship between history, memory and knowledge and provides a terminological discourse regarding the Caucasian war as well as shows the influence of the ideology on preservation and development of memory. The author discovers different degrees of influence of historical knowledge, legends and myths on the development of emotional and psychological attitudes and stereotypes as well as the correlation between historical knowledge and memory. The author proves the need for distancing of historiography from events and memory. To author has applied the socio-cultural approach to studying the axiological aspect of social-historical memory. This approach allows to define the role of cultural life and social-political self-organization in the support and development of individual and collective memory. In his research Yusupov has also applied the methods and principles of historicism, objectivism, comparison and analysis of survey data. The scientific novelty and importance of the research is in using a set of methods and discovering the importance of social-historical memory as a powerful factor of influence on the social life. Based on the example of collective memory of a regional community, the author shows the role of emotionally experienced events of the past presented by social moods and public actions at the moment of a socialpolitical crisis in the country and the region at the turn of the 90s of the 20th century. The author also offers a definition of the memory on the Caucasian war and concludes that it would be useful to build the policy of memory, the culture of memory and to support organic connections in the process of the development of ethnic, regional and Russian national memory.

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