Великая Отечественная война

This article is devoted to the analysis of everyday religious practices of Soviet citizens during the Great Patriotic War. The theoretical and methodological basis of the analysis is the concept of “lived religion”, developed by Meredith B. McGuire, Robert Orsi, Ivan Strensky.

The main branches of the liberal critique of the Great Patriotic War historical memory in contemporary Russia, its official interpretation and usage for political purposes are considered in this article. The material presented in the paper allows concluding that alternative comprehension of the Great Patriotic War history, which is oriented primarily to revelation of its negative sides, objectively aims at discretization of the Soviet heritage, severance of intergenerational continuity, and delegitimizing of the current political system of modern Russia.