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Ruined Home. From the History of Stanitsa Ubezhenskaya during the Soviet Period Through the Eyes of an Eyewitness
Authors: Igor G. Ivantsov, Igor V. Dubinin
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Modern historical research on the history of everyday life in Russia during the Soviet period is a reflection of the “spirit of the times”. A certain rise in historical research at the beginning of the 21st century is characterized by the mass use, for this purpose, of various kinds of memories, private letters, other sources of personal origin, telling about the lives of individuals, communities, settlements in conditions of instability, various kinds of social upheavals, so characteristic of the Soviet period of Russian history, especially for its first half. It is in this case that written sources of personal origin are sometimes indispensable for the development of research on the history of everyday life, microhistory of communities and other areas. So, it is important to refer to the recorded memoirs of contemporaries, a certain fashion for which arose already in the second half of the 1980s. This article is based on one of such sources, about the history of the village Ubezhenskaya, Uspensky district, Karasnodar krai, in Soviet period viewed by its inhabitant, Nikolay Ivanovich Zotov, eyewitness of the epoch.