Ludmila Isurin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures at Ohio State University, and an affiliated member of the Ohio State University Center for Cognitive and Brain Sciences. An interdisciplinary scholar whose research encompasses psycho- and sociolinguistics, social sciences and humanities, Isurin is the author or co-editor of five books and numerous chapters and journal articles including an award-winning article in Language Learning (2016).

• Introduction; Part I. Theoretical Background: 1. Collective memory; 2. Autobiographical memory; 3. Crossing the boundaries: collective memory, individual memory, and immigration; Part II. Russian Collective Past as a Case Study: 4. Study on Russian collective memory: methodology; 5. Collective memory in the world: historical events reflected in the text; 6. Russian wars, prominent figures and crises: the producers' side of the story; 7. Collective memory in the mind: Russians' remembrance of the past; 8. Role of individual memory in the construction of collective memories; Part III. Memory in the World and in the Mind: 8. The interplay of memory in the world and in the mind; Bibliography; Index.

'While work on autobiographical memory has primarily focused on the individual or the self, the current work approaches this topic from a collective perspective. This notion of a 'shared' autobiographical memory is novel and innovative, and indeed aptly harnesses the power of the collective mind in uncovering the construction of worldviews from collective memories.' Jeanette Altarriba, University of Albany, State University of New York