The Great Patriotic War in V.N. Paramonov’s research: in memory of the historian (1957–2022)

Abstract

The paper is devoted to the scientific activity of Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor Vyacheslav Nikolaevich Paramonov in the study of various aspects of the Great Patriotic War. Using classification methods, comparative historical and biographical methods, more than 100 publications (19852020) have been analyzed: monographs, textbooks, articles and theses, a doctoral dissertation and an abstract, reviews by V.N. Paramonov on the manuscripts of monographs, dissertations and abstracts of dissertations, as well as materials of the scientists personal file. The main thematic directions of his publications on the problem are singled out: the state of the regional and republican industry; labor sphere; rear everyday life; public consciousness, moods, mentality; gender history; information control; scientific research; interfaith relations; questions of historiography and source studies; historical memory of the war. An attempt has been made to determine their development in relation to the empirical base being mastered, the novelty of the plots and the results of the research. The contribution of the historian to the formation and introduction into scientific circulation of sources on the military period, the appeal to little-studied subjects, the presence and argumentation of the authors position on some issues are emphasized. The significant contribution of V.N. Paramonov to the development of the economic and social all-Russian and regional history of the war period is revealed.