ПОМНИ О МАТЕРИ-РОДИНЕ! КОНКУРИРУЮЩИЕ МЕСТА ПАМЯТИ
REMEMBER THE MOTHERLAND! COMPETING REALMS OF MEMORY

Summary/Abstract: The use of the image of Mother in monumental sculpture, which is part of places of remembrance, is considered in this paper. The author studies the ways, how Mother of the Homeland was included in the symbolic policy in Soviet and post-Soviet times, in regional and ethnic context of cities’ symbolic space. The focus is on reconsideration of the image of Mother of the Homeland monument in Naberezhnye Chelny and also on the discussion, which started with an attempt to reconsider the role of the war memories in Volgograd. The author comes to the conclusion that there is no single explanation of the use of the image of Mother of the Homeland in politics. It can be suggested that many monuments have gained their own unique meaning.

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