Фреймирование личности Иосифа Сталина в современных российских СМИ: контексты памяти и забвения

Шаги/Steps. 2021. Т. 7. № 1. С. 83–98.

Dushakova I.

The article examines how information about the period of Stalin's rule is presented in
the contemporary Russian media, as well as what role his figure plays in the media
representation of the era of his rule. The corpus is collected based on the request in “Medialogia”
database with two keywords: Stalin and Stalinism. Proceeding from the position that any
information circulating in the media field, including those affecting memory processes, will be
explained not so much by the mechanisms of memory as by the way of presenting information,
in particular, by framing, the author identifies four main ways of framing Stalin's personality: an
ambivalent attitude, critical attitude, positive attitude, correction of the memory of the
personality. The author examines in detail the groups of texts representing an ambivalent attitude
towards Stalin and aimed at correcting perceptions about him. The proposed typology can serve
as a starting point for further clarification and more detailed analysis. The analysis of the third
and fourth groups of texts showed that the representation of an ambivalent attitude to the person
and the era allows, to a lesser extent than unambiguous framing, to keep silent about significant
events, thereby constructing the effect of forgetting, which is necessary in those cases for
building a coherent discourse.

Keywords: память, фрейм, СМИ, frame, memory, И. Сталин, media framing, сталинская эпоха, Stalin era, forgetting, забывание, mass media, J.Stalin, news trigger, медиафреймирование, информационный повод