Voices of Collective Remembering reviews various understandings of the term “collective memory” as it is used in the humanities and social sciences. Drawing on this review, James V. Wertsch outlines a particular version of collective remembering grounded in the use of “textual resources,” especially narratives. This takes him into the special properties of narratives that shape this process and into the issues of how textual resources are produced and consumed by examining the rapid, massive transformation of collective memory during the transition from Soviet Russia to post-Soviet Russia and the processes of collective memory formation, especially as carried out by modern states.