Email this article Komsomol undertakings of the 1960s – 1970s in the memoirs of contemporaries and archival documents (based on the materials of the Republic of Tatarstan)
- Authors: Kamaeva E.V.1
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Affiliations:
- Kazan State University of Architecture and Engineering
- Issue: Vol 27, No 2 (2022)
- Pages: 534-546
- Section: NATIONAL HISTORY
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/1810-0201/article/view/298231
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.20310/1810-0201-2022-27-2-534-546
- ID: 298231
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Separate areas of work of the Komsomol organization of the Tatar ASSR in the 1960– 1970s are considered through the memories of the participants (The Republic of Tatarstan was called the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (TASSR) from 1920 to 1992. The capital city is Kazan). The relevance of the study lies in the fact that memories are used in the study as factual material and quantitative indicators that are absent in archival documents of this period. The purpose of the study was, therefore, to study and compare information on individual areas of work of the Komsomol, obtained as a result of interviewing participants of the events and from official reports. The interdisciplinary approach of the Annales school was chosen as a methodology, revealing the picture of everyday life using sociological research methods. To study the problem, interviews were conducted with 92 people who were members of the Komsomol organization of the Tatar ASSR in the 1960s – 1970s. The answers of the respondents supplemented and clarified the information obtained from archival documents in some points, and went against them in others, thereby helping to recreate a more complete picture of the life of the Komsomol of the TASSR of the specified period. As a result of the study, gaps were identified in archival documents on the history of the activities of the Komsomol organization in the 1960s–1970s. It is concluded that some areas of work declared in official reports were not actually carried out. The involvement of memories as a historical source made it possible to explain the reasons for this state of affairs and compare the working conditions of the Komsomol committees of the city and the countryside.
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E. V. Kamaeva
Kazan State University of Architecture and Engineering
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Email: bureeva27@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2274-9931
Candidate of History, Associate Professor of History and Philosophy Department
1, Zelenaya St., Kazan 420043, Republic of Tatarstan, Russian FederationReferences
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