Abstract ♦ The authors analyze representations regarding some outstanding Russian public figures of the past on the basis of an empirical research. These conceptualizations can be discovered in the collective memory of three age groups of people. In accordance with the findings of the research, the rating of the most significant persons of Russian history was determined and their main characteristics given by the respondents were revealed.
Keywords: representations of collective memory, large social groups, social identity, processes of collective memory.
Emelianova Tatiana Petrovna, Doctor of Psychology, Professor; Professor, Department of Social and Ethnic Psychology, Moscow University for the Humanities. Tel.: +7 (499) 374-56-11. E-mail:
Kuznetsova Anna Vladimirovna, Reader, Department of Social Developmental Psychology, Faculty of Social Psychology, Moscow City University of Psychology and Education; alumnus of the postgraduate course of the Department of Social Psychology at Russian State University for the Humanities. Tel.: +7 (495) 632-95-44. E-mail: . Research adviser: Doctor of Psychology, Professor T. P. Emelianova.
Citation: Emelianova, T. P. and Kuznetsova, A. V. (2013) Znachimye figury rossiiskoi istorii v kollektivnoi pamiati raznykh grupp obshchestva [The significant persons of Russian history in the collective memory of various social groups]. Znanie. Ponimanie. Umenie, no. 2, pp. 123–129. (In Russ.).
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