H. TRUNYAN, "THE NARRATIVE INFRASTRUCTURE OF THE STATE: HOW STATES CREATE, STORE, AND TRANSMIT NATIONAL MEMORY"

The popular science collection "The Narrative Infrastructure of the State: How States Create, Store, and Transmit National Memory" is an in-depth interdisciplinary study addressed to political scientists, historians, analysts, and specialists in strategic communications. The book offers a fundamentally new perspective on public memory—not as a passive archival heritage, but as the fundamental infrastructure of the modern state: a branching system of institutions, technologies, and practices that shapes collective meanings and national identity.

Structurally, the publication is divided into seven parts and three appendices. The first part explores the foundations of narrative theory: the concept of narrative as an interpretive framework, the role of plot and schematic narrative templates, as well as the concept of "narrative truth," which determines winning historical versions. Special attention is given to the notion of the "weaponized narrative" as an instrument of cognitive and mental impact in information-psychological warfare.

Subsequent sections examine in detail public and civil memory institutions (archives, schools, museums, memorials), technologies of state memory management (Memory as Governance) through the mythology of heroism, symbolic politics, and calendar rituals. The book thoroughly analyzes the impact of the digital era—the role of social networks, recommendation algorithms, generative artificial intelligence, and compound memetic systems that ensure the continuous self-reproduction of meanings. The collection concludes with practical methodologies for analyzing narrative systems and indicators of state resilience.