ON THE RELIABILITY OF THE BOLSHEVIK MEMORIES OF THE REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT OF 1907-1914

Abstract

At the end of Soviet historiography, there was a noticeable increase in interest in memoirs as a source of opportunity to observe the history in the human dimension, through personal experience, the consciousness and the value system of their authors. This also manifested itself in the memoirs of the Bolsheviks in the pre-revolutionary and Soviet period. At the same time, the features of this memoir literature were revealed. It was reflected not so much by the personality of the author in events, but under the influence on the author's memory and on the text of memoirs of the circumstances connected with the situation at the time when these memories were created. Thus the problem of the reliability of the information contained in them, including the role of the author in events appears. The memoirs of the Bolsheviks, in which the period of 1907-1914 was reflected, or from the end of the revolution on June 3 before the outbreak of World War I, were published quite actively. It could be explained by the propaganda effect on this literature. The memoirs of the Bolsheviks give an idea of the peculiarities of the influence on their content of the socio-political and cultural-historical situation of the time when they were created.