Traumatisation of the past: methodology of research and main approaches

The article considers the main directions of the analysis of collective trauma, psychological and sociological. On the basis of studying modern domestic literature on the issue of collective trauma the author comes to a conclusion about the search of methodological synthesis. The search of the methodology focused on studying events of the remote past and mechanisms of their traumatization in modern historical memory becomes a single question. There is an accent shift from the event to the representation in media space, and the trauma becomes the instrument of political and economic influence.