The figure of Imam Shamil as a subject of historical research in the mass media in the Soviet Union

The figure of the third imam of Dagestan, the leader of the 19th century national liberation movement in the Caucasus, Shamil, underwent many different and contradictory interpretations in the media both in pre-revolutionary and Soviet times. In the Soviet years, this situation was aggravated by censorship. In this paper we will study the technology of memory formation about Shamil in the Soviet media and understand the reasons for the formation of the ambiguous character of this personality in public memory.