現代ロシアの歴史教育と第二次世界大戦の記憶
Memory of World War II and History Education in Putin’s Russia

Summary/Abstract: Memory of war with Germany is the mainstay of Russia’s political ideology, which draws constant scholarly attention to Russian policy of depiction of WWII. Preceding literature on this issue mainly addresses the following two aspects: (1) the ways in which Russia’s democratization since the 1990s has shaped its narrative of the Soviet era and (2) the extent to which varied interpretations of the events during and after WWII affect Russia’s interactions with the West and former Soviet satellites in the mid-2000s. Examining Russian policy concerning Soviet history under Putin in terms of transitional justice, Kora Andrieu contends that it is the destruction of civil society in the course of the seventy-year communist rule that hinders the recognition and investigation of crimes committed by the Soviet regime; in addition, the Russians find it difficult to see the previous regime with hostility as they would an externally imposed regime. Accordingly, Andrieu concludes that Russia now represents a case of failed transitional justice that “chooses not to confront ist violent past.” Observing the revival of interest in the Soviet past that temporarily declined in the 1990s after the ferment of Perestroika, Nikolai Koposov meanwhile examines Russian policy of historical memory from 2009 to 2010 against a backdrop of international conflicts over the interpretation of WWII.

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