Historical and Archival Television Programs in the Context of the “Memorial Turn”

The historical theme has become now one of the most popular in Russian television activities, as well as in modern interdisciplinary scientific research. The article examines Russian television practice in preserving the people collective cultural memory. Unfortunately, risks associated with reported facts unreliability and falsification often arise here. The “memorial turn” that emerged at the 20th and 21st turn of the centuries and became one of the methodological turns that changed the modern historical science face is considered here within the framework of the proposed by S.G. Korkonosenko “social order” concept, the source of which is not the demands of the state, parties or private structures, but the totality of the society needs. It is stated that professional historians are increasingly engaged in the history popularization today, which appears in their works both as knowledge of the past and as an image of this past in collective memory. The following concepts are compared: academic, popular, applied and public history, located between professional and popular history; cultural, historical, collective memory, as well as the concept of “media memory” that arose due to the collective memory mediatization processes in the digital environment, which leads to its transformation into digital memory. Media integration into various society spheres leads to the fact that Internet users now act not only as consumers, but also as the creators of the historical content broadcasting past images. This article is an attempt to understand the complex relationships between historical science, collective memory and media. The TV programs of the channel “Russia K” are analyzed: “The Fact Power”, “Captured Time”, “The Era Handwriting”. Using the example of television's work with historical and archival materials within the “historical journalism” tasks framework the influence on the screen document with reality relationship from the side of the author and the viewer, who can perceive the historical TV program on different or several levels at once: as information, analytics or artistic journalism, is shown.