Vestnik of Orenburg State Pedagogical University. Electronic Scientific Journal. 2022. № 1 (41). P. 98—107
HISTORICAL SCIENCES
UDC 94(470.56):929 Кобозев
Dzhundzhuzov Stepan Viktorovich, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor
Orenburg State Pedagogical University
MEMOIRES OF P. A. KOBOZEV ON THE STRUGGLE FOR ESTABLISHING SOVIET POWER IN THE ORENBURG REGION IN NOVEMBER 1917 — JANUARY 1918 IN THE CONTEXT OF THE HISTORIOGRAPHIC TRADITION OF INTERPRETING THE SOURCE
Abstract
In 1925—1927 on the instructions of the Orenburg branch of the Commission on the History of the October Revolution and the Communist Party (Istpart), P. A. Kobozev wrote memoirs about the struggle for the establishment of Soviet power in the Orenburg Territory. Certain works of Soviet and modern historiography allow us to speak of Kobozev’s memoirs as of a sought-after and at the same time underestimated memoir source. Soviet historians omitted the details that cast a shadow on the revolutionary consciousness of the Red Guards formed from the workers’ detachments. The selection of quotes and conclusions were made taking into account the political situation and ideology. In modern literature, on the contrary, there is a biased and even negative attitude towards P. A. Kobozev and his associates in the struggle for Soviet power.
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Dzhundzhuzov S. V. Memoires of P. A. Kobozev on the struggle for establishing Soviet power in the Orenburg region in November 1917 — January 1918 in the context of the historiographic tradition of interpreting the source. Vestnik of Orenburg State Pedagogical University. Electronic Scientific Journal, 2022, no. 1 (41), pp. 98—107. DOI: https://doi.org/10.32516/2303-9922.2022.41.9.