Аннотация

This is the first article from the series “New Historical Sensibility” characterising the latest direction in the contemporary French-Canadian historiography arisen during 1990–2006. Its basic purpose consists not only in revision of former interpretations of the historical facts, but in revaluation the ways and methods with help of those their predecessors tried to explain events of the past. Voluntarily or involuntarily, they connect a history to the present, promoting to creation of real links between generations. In contrast to the historians of the “modernist school” (1950–1960) and that of “revisionist school” (1970–1980) the new generation of historians aspires to establish strong communication between a history and memory, to update relations between professional historians and general public that really to promote transfer of scholarly knowledge of the past for nowadays living people.