Большая история малой родины (о книге Е. В. Еланцева «Село Абатское и Абатская волость в начале XVIII – начале XX века»)

Abstract

This publication is an analytical review of the popular science work of the Tyumen local historian Yevgeny Vladimirovich Elantsev «Abatskoye village and Abatskaya volost at the beginning of the 18th – beginning of the 20th centuries», published in the city of Ishim this year. The author of the review is one of the official reviewers of the book, which covers two hundred years of pre-revolutionary history using the example of a large administrative- territorial unit that was part of the Ishim district of the Tobolsk province (now the territory of the southeast of the Tyumen region). According to the author of the review, the publication makes a significant contribution to the study of the socio-economic development of Western Siberia in the 18th – early 20th centuries. The principles of the system and the determinism made it possible to analyze the publication, regarded as a phenomenon of science, having its own structure, at the same time, entering into the community of historical and local history knowledge. Based on the specifics of the topic, the main scientific method used to write this publication is problematic. Noting the relevance, novelty, as well as a number of other undoubted advantages of the book novelty, the review also contains subjective critical passages, which are regarded as possible ways for further information improvement of the publication and study of the topic. The author of the review concludes that Yevgeny Vladimirovich Elantsev presented to the scientific community a full-fledged, high-quality historical and local lore work, which has rich facts and is focused on a number of applied areas of the humanitarian sphere. The review is addressed to a wide circle of readers, including, first of all, researchers of the history of historical science, Russian historiography, the pre- revolutionary history of Russia and the local history of Siberia, and the practice of local history.