title: Retrospective Analysis of Conversations with Residents of the Pre-Reform Russian City in the Genre of Oral History
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metadata.value: Smirnov, Yurii N.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2018-06-21T09:56:11Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2018-06-21T09:56:11Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2018-06
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metadata.value: Smirnov Yu. N. Retrospective Analysis of Conversations with Residents of the Pre-Reform Russian City in the Genre of Oral History. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2018, vol. 63, issue 2, pp. 361–377.
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu02.2018.203
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/10282
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metadata.value: The analysis of cultural and historical perceptions of merchants and petty bourgeois of Samara
  in the middle of the 19th century became possible thanks to the records of their stories made
  by G. N. Potanin. His notes had distinct attirbutes and patterns that have been revealed in the
  process of indentifying and examining of the living oral tradition in modern research. These
  material from Samara is not only of regional interest, bu also unique as far as all Russian provincial
  cities are concerned. In particular, it has been shown that their analysis enables to use
  methods of “oral history”. Manuscripts “Notes on Samara” and “Grandfather from Samara”
  by Potanin were made for the Russian Geographical Society and are kept now in its archive.
  During their creation written sources were almost never used. Potanin gave preference to oral
  stories by old-timers representing average residents. Representatives of the nobility and bureaucracy
  were not questioned by them. The received oral testimonies were hardly criticized.
  He fixed, often verbatim, both reliable and fantastic versions of local stories. Due to this method,
  the local oral tradition has been preserved very fully and in detail. The records by Potanin
  traced the transformation of historical memory. It had been alive for about 80 years, while
  there remained eyewitnesses of events. In a society where it was not recorded in memoirs
  and scholarship, the realities of the past were replaced with myths. Collective consciousness
  retained only the most vivid or generally significant events. Records of conversations with
  Samara residents are yet to be careful studied by specialists from various fields of humanitarian
  knowledge. The existence of such notes give hope for discovering similar sources in other
  cities of Russia.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 63; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Russian history
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the 19th century
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: local history
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: cultural ideas
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: historiography
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: source studies
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: methods of oral history
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: historical memory
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Retrospective Analysis of Conversations with Residents of the Pre-Reform Russian City in the Genre of Oral History
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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