The politics of memory as a factor of social transformation

The article deals with the problem of determining the place and importance of the politics of memory as one of dimensions of symbolic politics and a factor of social transformation. It reveals the role of memory in political framework of the institutional, regulatory, functional, communicative, cultural and ideological levels. The role and importance of the politics of memory are discussed in the context of the specificity of value systems of stable and transitional periods of social development. The value and opportunities of the politics of memory as conditions for the formation and implementation of multidirectional memory have been analysed.