The issue of sources in the study of peasant uprisings (the case of the Rudnya settlement, 1918)

Проблема источников при изучении крестьянских восстаний (случай слободы Рудни, 1918 год)

Posadskiy, Anton (Посадский, Антон) ()
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Russian Peasant Studies, 2021, vol. 6, 50-64

Abstract: The article considers a specific case of the peasant uprising in the large commercial settlement in the Kamyshinsky district of the Saratov Province at the initial stage of the Civil War in Russia. The author focuses on the investigative case against activists of the mass demonstration, and this source allowed to better identify the personal characteristics of the participants and activists of the uprising, describe their behavior during and after the outrage and defense strategies during the investigation. The personal features of the activists of the uprising, its course and development are considered based on the sources on the armed actions of the peasantry during the Civil War. The author argues that the most active participants of the armed struggle left their native places during uprisings. As a rule, there are no sources of biographical nature even in judicial and investigative materials, because personal data was poorly recorded by the representatives of political supervision. Therefore, the voice of activists is the most elusive, and the most active participants of peasant uprisings are poorly represented in the sources. Our ideas about the causes and dynamics of the peasant armed struggle are based mainly on the indirect and secondary evidence, which inevitably distorts the general picture and requires both archival and methodological searches.

Keywords: peasantry; historical source; Civil War; Saratov Province; armed protest; uprising (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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