«He doesn't Surrender, our Proud „Variag»: Heroic Images of The Russian-Japanese War in Historical Memory of Russians

Abstract

By way of the example of three episodes of The Russian-Japanese War (The Cruiser «Variag» feat, The torpedo boat «Steregushy» flood and Admiral Makarov's death) at the article shows the mechanism of creation and fix the image of the hero at the historical remember at a war current and afterwards. Also made an attempt to analyze the criterions of selection the events to remember by historical remember. At the materials of the hold a celebration of the centenary of The Russian-Japanese War shows the modern mechanisms of historical remember model.