Historical memory as a research problem: analysis of modern approaches

For the last decades, the problem of memory is a subject of interdisciplinary researches, causing wide interest of anthropologists, psychologists, literary critics, sociologists, culturologists. The special attention to problems of memory is paid in historical science. In article an attempt to allocate the most actual and debatable aspects of studying of a phenomenon of memory as categories of historical science at the present stage is made: problems of a ratio of history and memory, definition of the term “historical memory”, a question of functions of historians in preservation of memory of the past. Key tendencies of development of researches of historical memory are designated.