Techniques for Redesignation of the Places of Tragic Memory in Contemporary Russia: Perm-36, Sandarmokh, Katyn

The thesis of the 4th year student Kazantsev Arseny Sergeevich, who is studying in the direction of ‘History’, is devoted to identifying techniques for re-assigning places of tragic memory in modern Russia, change the meanings (senses) in places of tragic memory throughout the entire period of their existence. The author examines three cases: Perm-36, Sandarmokh and Katyn. The periodization of redesignation covers the period from the moment of their formation. The objects of research are verbal and visual sources connected with the activities of various memory actors. A distinctive feature of the work is the usage of modern methodologies for analyzing the processes associated with change of the culture of memory, redesignations in places of tragic memory in Russia. The author's approaches are used in the research: actor-oriented, institutional-oriented, and locally-oriented. Using the main method comparative-historical analysis, a diachronic analysis of memory locations is presented, aimed at identifying changes in the structure and practices of memory in places of tragic memory. And it is a synchronous analysis, that is simultaneous analysis of all places of tragic memory, at the same period of time. The research work is done in order to identify common and different redesignations in techniques.