Гуманитарный вектор (Jun 2020)
“The Urban Everyday Life” in the Regional Periodicals of the Second Half on the XIXth – Early XXth Centuries: Review of Modern Historiography
Abstract
The article analyzes the modern Russian historiography of city daily occurrence in the pre-revolutionary period. A special feature of the research is the use of materials of periodicals as the main source. Scientific articles, monographers and dissertations on this subject are reviewed and characterized on this issue. It is revealed that in most work, newspapers are an independent source in the study of everyday life of citizens. Historians used various periodical materials: notes, journalistic articles, essays, feuilletons. The authors demonstrated the broad informative possibilities of periodical materials in the study of everyday life of urban residents. In the regional periodicals, the issues of education formation, improvement, health care, and sanitary conditions of cities were primarily focused on. The researchers found that critical publications were prepared by journalists in order to accelerate the modernization processes in the region. At the same time, scientists have drawn attention to publications on the deviant behavior of citizens, the “women’s issue”, and the everyday life population in crisis situations. Newspaper ads containing direct or indirect information about the life and leisure of the population are of great interest to historians. With the help of advertising from newspapers, you can reconstruct everyday space of a provincial town. The regional press of the pre-revolutionary period is a wide field for the study of everyday life of citizens. At the same time, working with newspapers involves a number of difficulties for almost all researchers: the state of the source, the identification of the authors of publications, the reliability of information. The review of this problem contributes to the need to prepare a generalizing work on the history of everyday life.
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