Configuration of social memory manifestations in the characteristics of the national historical process

The article notes that social memory acts as a complex self-organizing process of selection, preservation and reproduction of information on the past experience of activities and human relations in social systems. The cyclic wave nature of configuration of social memory manifestation in the characteristics of the Russian historical process is the evidence of the fact that occasionally lost memory contents can be reverted to the history in the revised form responding to the demands of the epoch.