Reflections on the results of the all-Russian scientific conference with international participation “Reforms of the late 20th – early 21st centuries in the post-Soviet space: regional aspect”

Abstract

The conference was held in December 2020 in Vladivostok at the
Institute of History, Archeology and Ethnography of the Peoples
of the Far East of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy
of Sciences with the support of the Russian Historical Society
and the History of the Fatherland Foundation. The geography of
full-time and part-time participants of the conference includes
the regions of the European part of Russia, Siberia and the Far
East (from St. Petersburg to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky), as well
as Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Japan. The participants of the
conference noted that in the era of radical reforms, the problem
of preserving historical memory in the post-Soviet space is
acute. Most of the reports were aimed at increasing the role of
historical science in the system of humanitarian approaches,
methods and concepts used in the study of market reforms and
their role in the history of Russia. Many reports suggested that
the time distance separating us from the reforms of the 1990s
already allows us to highlight the main aspects related to the
fundamental task of science – to comprehend the historical path
of the countries that were formed in the post-Soviet space and experienced the impact of globalization and liberal ideology at
the turn of the XX – XXI centuries.