Latgale as an Object and Subject of Contemporary Historical Memory Policy in Latvia

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The aim is to analyze the historical policy of collective memory in contemporary Latgale. It is assumed that Latgale acts both as an object and a subject of memorial culture in Latvia. The novelty lies in studying the current stage in development of historical policy in Latvia at the regional level. It is shown that the intellectual community of Latgale makes the main contribution to the transformation and development of memorial culture. It is assumed that at the regional level in Latgale, local social and cultural activists became the key agents of historical policy. The author points out that virtual spaces became the main space for the formation of collective ideas about the past in Latgale. The article shows that the memorial culture in Latgale has original sources, represented by political and intellectual traditions of the Latgalian movement. It is shown that the memorial policy in Latgale is secondary, since the regional form of historical collective memory reproduces narratives that form the historical memory of Latvia.

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M. W. Kyrchanoff

Voronezh State University

Email: maksym_kyrchanoff@hotmail.com
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-3819-3103
Doctor of Sciences (History), Associate Professor, Department of Regional Studies and Economics of Foreign Countries, Faculty of International Relations, Associate Professor, Department of History of Foreign Countries and Oriental Studies, Faculty of History Voronezh, Russia

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