Razumova, I. A. “BETWEEN WHITE AND RED” BY R. A. KRAVCHENKO-BEREZHNY AS A HISTORICAL SOURCE AND AUTHOR’S TEXT // Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University. 2020. Vol. 42. No 6. P. 32–39. DOI: 10.15393/uchz.art.2020.514


Historiography, source studies, methods of historical research

“BETWEEN WHITE AND RED” BY R. A. KRAVCHENKO-BEREZHNY AS A HISTORICAL SOURCE AND AUTHOR’S TEXT

Razumova
I. A. 		Federal Research Centre “Kola Science Centre of the Russian Academy Sciences”
Keywords:
Historical source
diary
memoirs
World War II
occupation
R. A. Kravchenko-Berezhnoy		 Summary: The goal is to determine the socio-cultural significance of the memoirs of R. A. Kravchenko-Berezhny as a historical source and literary work. The author-memoirist is a scientist, in his youth a resident of the occupied city on the border of Poland and Ukraine, then a participant in the great Patriotic war. His diary was used at the Nuremberg trials among the evidence accusing Nazism. The diary was part of a book of memoirs that was written in the post-Soviet period. The book of memoirs is analyzed in the context of problems in the Humanities related to the typology and literary diversity of historical sources, the scientific and historical significance of ego-documents (personal narratives). The content and structure of the memoir-autobiographical book “Between White and Red” are considered. The source’s information capabilities are significant for studying the chronicle of events, the ethnosocial situation in the occupied city, the genocide of Jews, military everyday life, the history of the family of Russian emigrants, as well as for understanding the processes of the personal formation of the Russian intellectual in specific historical and cultural contexts of the 20th century. It is concluded that the book is a scientific resource for historical, anthropological and literary studies.



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