Paper abstract:

Civic activism in the field of historical memory is a movement that offers alternative approaches to the dominant,

institutionalized point of view on history. Memory activism is not just the preservation of historical memory and not just

resistance to the destruction of the past. This is the active creativity of communities and individuals, aimed at resisting the one-sided politics of memory and expressing a different vision of historical events through memorial processions,

monuments, creating posters, scientific and artistic texts, journalistic reports, and cinema. Memory activism in Kyrgyzstan is

manifested, for example, in the assessment of the events of 1916 by various groups of society, their interpretation of

historical events and in related actions. This report will raise the example of commemorating Urkun-1916, about the politics

of memory and the culture of commemorating these events.