Eldar ISMAILOV, Rauf GARAGOZOV

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Eldar Ismailov, Director, Institute of Strategic Studies of the Caucasus; Chairman of the Editorial Council of The Caucasus & Globalization Journal (Baku, Azerbaijan).

Rauf Garagozov, Ph.D. (Psychol.), leading research associate at the Institute of Strategic Studies of the Caucasus (Baku, Azerbaijan).

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CONFRONTATIONAL COLLECTIVE MEMORY IN THE CAUCASUS: HOW CAN THE “CURSE OF THE PAST” BE OVERCOME?

ABSTRACT

The authors have investigated certain specific features of the development and reproduction of the collective memory of the Central Caucasian nations (the Azeri, Armenians, and Georgians), as well as of the Russians, who also contributed to the process to a certain extent. They have pointed to the “confrontational” nature of the collective memory of the local peoples, which interferes with their mutual understanding and regional cooperation; the authors are also trying to identify social and psychological factors in the development and transformation of collective memory, which could, in the final analysis, help to create a new form of common Caucasian identity based on the values of a pluralist and democratic society.

“We all thought that history is the past to be described in more or less soothing terms by those who seek academic degrees or……………..

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