Civil war

The article is devoted to methodological reflection everyday ideas about the Civil war in the Russia, viewed through the prism of historical memory. Analyzed narrative evidence of the mythology of everyday consciousness as a special channel of communion with the past. Notes difference between social facts from their own descriptions using the universal procedural checks regardless of the “perspective” of the researcher.

The article is devoted to the issue of interdisciplinary reflection of historically formed local socio-cultural communities in a state of social hostility. Implementation of research tasks was achieved by the involvement and visibility of the Russian state archive of socio-political history Istpart and GNISO collections. The potential of sociography in relation to “coded” information contained in «provoked» personal documents is analyzed.