Profoundly challenging the traditional view of memory as the product and property of individual minds, Collective Remembering is concerned with remembering and

There is currently a great deal of discussion in the humanities and social sciences about collective memory, but there is very little agreement on what it is. T

How do we use our mental images of the present to reconstruct our past? Maurice Halbwachs (1877-1945) addressed this question for the first time in his work on

Isurin presents a case study of Russian collective memory as it is constructed by producers and consumed by people.

This book aims at building a bridge between the social and political aspects of remembering and the cognitive and discourse processes driving such activities. B