Representation of the Soviet-Finnish War of 1939–1940 in the Russian Information Space

In this article, we explore the representation of the Soviet-Finnish war of 1939-1940 in the Russian information space.We analyze the evolution of historiographical approaches to conflict, from early Soviet apologetics through a radical revision of the 1990s to a modern synthetic stage critically integrating Russian and Finnish studies.At the same time, special attention is paid to non-academic forms of representation: the role of memoir literature, mass media, literary texts (especially popular genres like combat fiction), cinematography, memorial practices and Internet content (including YouTube), which significantly influence the mass perception of the "Winter War".We come to the conclusion that the image of war is fragmented and ideologically dependent in the non-academic sphere, its marginalization in the national narrative against the background of the dominance of the theme of the Great Patriotic War, the regionalization of memory in border areas and the tendency towards humanization, which underlines the incompleteness of integrating this event into the Russian mental landscape.