The Soviet Past and Author's Identity in the Memoirs of Moscow Medievalists (1990s – early 2000s)

Student: Chirikova Mariya

Educational Programme: History (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2018

Topic of the soviet subjectivity is fundamental to the historical research, because it helps to reconstruct a full-fledged picture of the Soviet society, to investigate how ordinary soviet people looked at the phenomenon of the Soviet state. Recently, there has been renewed interest in the sources of personal origins: diaries and memoirs. In this work corpus of memoirs written by soviet historians-medievalists is used as a main source. One of the greatest challenges to our work is to study how authors of the memoirs construct their identities in their memoirs and how their identities affects their perception of the described events from their personal life and the history of the community of Moscow medievalists.

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