World Culture of Memory: Origins, Prospects, Responsibility

This paper analyzes the phenomenon of the so-called “global culture of memory” that emerged in the second half of the 20th century and early 21st century. The author critically examines the idea of the universality of this culture, demonstrating its genetic connection with Western European and North American historical experience. The paper also analyzes the transformation of the memory of the Holocaust into a global moral paradigm and the institutional mechanisms for its dissemination. In response to the challenges and risks of the globalization of memory, the paper touches upon the historical memory policy of contemporary Russia. This policy is inter-preted not as a “vacuum” (isolated) project, but as a purposeful strategy to assert the right to its own sovereign interpretation of the national past, to build its own hierarchy of significant events, and to form a national identity based on its own historical narrative. The article analyzes the key points of divergence between the Russian and dominant Western approaches to memory, and raises the question of the forms and limits of responsibility in the era of hybrid wars.