That history of mine: On the attitude of secondary and tertiary school students to the Past

Abstract

The article focuses on a new generation historical self-consciousness. The relationship of the notions of "historical identity" and "historical self-consciousness" are considered. Building on the results of research on the new generation historical consciousness undertaken in 2006-2013, the specific nature of historical "Self" of the young contemporaries of post-Soviet Russia is revealed and some problems of their historical consciousness are identified.