Reception of Post-Soviet Everyday Life of the 1990s by Young Residents of the Countries of the Former USSR

Student: Gurin Maksim

Educational Programme: Sociology (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2021

The thesis is devoted to the study of the perception of the 1990s by post-memory carriers. The focus of the study is on those who show interest in the "nineties". The results of the study showed that we can talk about nostalgia for the nineties among young people in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus. Reflexive nostalgia and nostalgia as an aesthetic category are recorded. In addition, we can talk about cultural trauma, the central themes of which are the war in Chechnya and the house bombings in 1999. To achieve the goal and objectives of the study, 12 semi-structured interviews were conducted with residents from 9 cities. The study participants were urban residents aged 17 to 28 years.

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