Review of the Book «The Official Discourse of the Russian Policy of Memory of the Soviet Past: Strategies of Interpretation, Actors, Commemorative Practices». Collective Monograph / under the General Editorship of Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor O.F. Rusakova. Yekaterinburg, Publishing House «Discourse-Pi», 2022, 370 p.

The article analyzes a recently published book by a team of Ural political scientists and historians devoted to the study of the Russian policy of memory of the Soviet past. An attempt is made not only to characterize the structure of the book, but also to point out the social significance of this publication. The author of the article came to the conclusion that the point of view of the authors of the monograph deserves attention, which boils down to the fact that over the past three decades in the Russian official discourse not only alternative interpretations and interpretations of the October Revolution, the image of Stalin, the price of the Victory of the Soviet Union in the Great Patriotic War, the formation and collapse of the USSR, etc., but also formed two official memory policies about the Soviet past. To replace the neoliberal discourse that dominated the Russian official memory policy of Russia in the 1990s — the first half of the 2000s, a new model of memory policy has been formed in the country, which is based on a conceptual break with the ideology of neoliberalism and is based on the values of the policy of reasonable conservatism.