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The Phenomenon of Front-line Partnership in the Everyday life of participants Great Patriotic War
The article is devoted to the front-line partnership and its reflection in the memory of the participants of the Great Patriotic War.
Purpose: The interpersonal relationships of war participants have rarely become the subject of historical research. The purpose of the article is to find out what place the front-line partnership occupies in the everyday life and memory of the participants
in the Great Patriotic War.
Methods: The article was based on memoirs, diaries and letters of front-line soldiers, as well as interviews with participants in the Great Patriotic War. The author used the methods of oral history, concrete historical analysis and microhistoric research.
Results: Majority of the participants in the Great Patriotic War positively recalled their frontline team as a fighting family, in spite of national differences. Front-line partnership can be viewed as a kind of projection of the friendship of peoples at the level of interpersonal relations. Many veterans of the Great Patriotic War contrasted the phenomenon of frontline camaraderie with the exacerbation of interethnic relations in the 1990s–2000s.
Purpose: The interpersonal relationships of war participants have rarely become the subject of historical research. The purpose of the article is to find out what place the front-line partnership occupies in the everyday life and memory of the participants
in the Great Patriotic War.
Methods: The article was based on memoirs, diaries and letters of front-line soldiers, as well as interviews with participants in the Great Patriotic War. The author used the methods of oral history, concrete historical analysis and microhistoric research.
Results: Majority of the participants in the Great Patriotic War positively recalled their frontline team as a fighting family, in spite of national differences. Front-line partnership can be viewed as a kind of projection of the friendship of peoples at the level of interpersonal relations. Many veterans of the Great Patriotic War contrasted the phenomenon of frontline camaraderie with the exacerbation of interethnic relations in the 1990s–2000s.
Great Patriotic War, memories, diaries, letters, interpersonal relations in the Red Army, daily life, oral history, front-line partnership