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Война как праздник, праздник как война: перформативная коммеморация Дня Победы
In the last few years, ways of celebrating Victory Day in Russia have changed signifi cantly and now involve multiple practices of “remembering through acting” (performative commemoration). The paper focuses on the functioning of such vernacular practices (including the decoration of cars, dressing in military uniforms, participating in the “Immortal Regiment” parade, etc.). Public discussions of such new forms show both the integrating and disintegrating potential of this festival. The framework within which the descendants of the victors defi ne their attitude to Victory Day (memory of victims or of triumph, usage of offi cial symbols or reluctance to use them) becomes the basis for unity and mutual disengagement of the two competing “moral communities”.