The phenomenon of the “new memory” about the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945

In the article, the author analyzes the main factors that, in his opinion, at the beginning of the XXI century. influenced the formation in Russian society of some new important features of the memory of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. Much attention is paid to the role that processes associated with the digital revolution played in the emergence of the phenomenon of the “new memory” of this war. The author’s typology model of those resources that contain materials on the history of the Great Patriotic War, located in the Russian-language segment of the Internet, is presented, some features of the process of politicizing the memory of the war in modern Russian society are disclosed.