THE MEMOIR SOURCES OF SOUTHEASTERN UKRAINIAN PEASANTS DURING THE PERIOD OF THE WORLD WAR I

Keywords: letters, diaries, memoirs, interpersonal relations, international relations, Russian Imperial Army, peasant memoir sources, World War I

Abstract

The proposed article investigates conditions and factors, created by the events of the World War I, which contributed to the creation of peasant personal sources amount. It conducts the analysis of peasants’ personal attitudes evolution. It researches socio-anthropological features of Russian army, both positive and negative, changes in relations between soldiers and officers, conditions of formation and evolution of the concepts ‘native’ and ‘alien,’ and the spread of deviant behavior forms among the soldiers. The article also evaluates the informational potential of peasant memoir sources and their level of subjectivity in the presentation of material.

In general, written personal sources of peasants in southeastern Ukraine from the period of the World War I are important sources of the history of Ukraine. Memoirs carry an important cognitive function allowing researching the aspects of history, such as the socio-cultural features and relations, which are not represented in other types of historical sources. The egocentrism and subjectivity of this type of sources can be perceived not as a defect, but rather as an object for different direction of further researches. Memoir sources not only allow new insights into the conditions of ‘ordinary people’ in the circumstances of the World War I, but also allow defining the influence of the same ‘ordinary people’ on the general course of history.

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Published
2022-01-20
How to Cite
Alekseev, O., & Vasylchuk, H. (2022). THE MEMOIR SOURCES OF SOUTHEASTERN UKRAINIAN PEASANTS DURING THE PERIOD OF THE WORLD WAR I. Zaporizhzhia Historical Review, 3(55), 44-54. Retrieved from https://istznu.org/index.php/journal/article/view/2304
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History of Ukraine