Features of the Soviet and modern Russian historiography of the Great Patriotic War
https://doi.org/10.18384/2949-5164-2024-4-84-93
Abstract
Aim. To identify the main characteristic features, peculiarities and trends in the development of historical research in the Soviet and modern periods of the history of the Great Patriotic War.
Methodology. Based on the analysis of a significant body of published literature on the war, an attempt is being made to identify the characteristic features of the national historiography of the Great Patriotic War from the second half of the 1940s, the influence of various factors on its formation. The conducted research was based on the principle of historicism, the principle of partisanship (in the analysis of historical and other publications of the Soviet period), historical-genetic, comparative-historical methods, and the method of retrospective analysis were used.
Results. The analysis of scientific and memoir published works made it possible to identify a number of features and the main problems of studying the history of the Great Patriotic War in the Soviet and modern periods, to identify some factors that influenced the formation of characteristic features of the study and publication of publications about the Great Patriotic War.
Research implications. The results obtained in the course of the conducted research can be used in educational activities, be the basis for subsequent scientific understanding of the problems of studying the history of the Great Patriotic War.
About the Author
A. V. Bykov
Omsk Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Alexander V. Bykov – Cand. Sci. (History), Assoc. Prof., Department of Civil Law Disciplines
ul. Komarova 7, Omsk 644092
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