HOMO DOLORIS, ILI TRAUMA KOJA JE OBLIKOVALA NACIJU
HOMO DOLORIS, OR THE TRAUMA THAT HAS SHAPED THE NATION

Summary/Abstract: The phenomenon of transgenerational trauma has been proved by numerous international studies exploring both individual stories and collective tragedies. These studies have usually been limited to the description of a single event and its effect. With this paper there is an attempt to see it broadly and narrowly simultaneously: across one nation — the Russians — and across quite significant and unique period in global and national history — the XX century. For Russia, the twentieth century represents a unique historical stratum which concentrated a whole galaxy of fundamental, historically significant events for the nation and each of its representatives. Any of them can be seen as a separate humanitarian catastrophe on a par with those already proposed for study. We can thus assume a new form of transgenerational phenomenon in relation to the Russian nation — characterized by a repetitive, ongoing and periodically intensifying traumatization, not simply transmitted from generation to generation, but multiplied by a whole series of traumatic events layered over the previous with new undigested grief.

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