Local “Memory Wars” and the Phenomenon of “Cancellation” in the Media of “Accommodative Culture” (Case of Republic of Tatarstan)

The article examines the problem of theory and practice of studying the internal Russian regional “memory wars”, which unfold, as a rule, in the local media and are accompanied by the phenomenon of “corporate cancellation”. It is stated that today the analysis of the ideological content of “memory wars” (“what is being argued about”) prevails in scientific practices of solving this problem, whereas it is more important to understand the socio-political mechanisms of the emergence of “conflicts of the past” in specific conditions of a non-“agonal” (not “Western”) types of culture. The aim of the study is to create a methodological model for analyzing the internal Russian regional “memory wars”. As a result of the research, the main provisions on the study of “memory wars” in the media of “accommodative culture” and the predominance of “corporate cancellation” mechanisms over the “culture of cancellation” were formulated. The dispute is going on between “Bulgarians” and “Tatars” about the origin of the Tatars and the difficulty of official recognition of the Kryashens (“Tatars- christians”) as a people other than Tatar, as well as polemics continues between Ufa and Kazan scientists about the ethnicity of the population living in the northwestern territories of contemporary Bashkortostan and about some archaeological objects located there. The main conclusion of the study is the statement of the secondary role of the factual content of the “memory wars”, the “deep” specifics of which are determined by “external” socio-political and even economic conditions, expressed in the implementation of “corporate abolition”. This conclusion is intended for the attention of social philosophers, anthropologists and historians.