Open AccessSynthesis of classical and interdisciplinary methods in the study of regional problems of the Soviet Russian history (the 1950s till the 1980s)
Author(s) -
Yuriy S. Nikiforov
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
vestnik kostromskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta imeni n.a. nekrasova
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1998-0817
DOI - 10.34216/1998-0817-2019-25-2-79-85
Subject(s) - conformity , interpretation (philosophy) , scope (computer science) , socialism , sociology , epistemology , law , political science , philosophy , communism , linguistics , politics , computer science , programming language
The article discusses the role of classical and interdisciplinary methods in the study of the Soviet regions of the late Socialist era. The chronological scope of the study is limited to 1950-1980. The study uses the concept of "late socialism" in Alexei Yurchak's interpretation. The study is based on the analysis of the ideas of Viktor Mokhov on Regional Elites; of Oleg Khlevniuk and Yoram Gorlizki, on the Soviet governing regional networks; of Lorina Repina, Irina Savel'yeva, Andrey Poletayev, on historical memory. Through the vector of "region-centre"communication, the methods of research of the Soviet regional elites of the Upper Volga regions (Vladimir, Ivanovo, Kostroma, Tver, Yaroslavl regions) are considered. The study is based on interdisciplinary theoretical concepts – Kurt Lewin's theory of group dynamics and social fi eld; Morton Deutsch's and Harold B. Gerard's information model of conformity; Randall Collins' theory of reference authority; Veronika Nurkova's ideas on autobiographical memory; "categorisation" and "schematisation"concepts highlighted by Jerome Seymour Bruner.