SOCIAL BIOGRAPHY AS A SOURCE FOR THE STUDY OF "LABOR HISTORY" IN THE CONTEXT OF THE HISTORY OF THE COUNTRY
Keywords:
Social biography, labor history, microhistory, labor feat, non-material incentives, autobiography, personal business, labor collective, the Great Patriotic War.Abstract
The authors of the article consider social biography as a source on the history of labor, contributing to the disclosure of the historical process through human individuality. In them study, an attempt was made to reconstruct a social biography using the example of the labor biography of Ivan Georgievich Makarov based on materials from a personal file, collective memoirs and newspaper publications. The article describes the characteristics of these historical sources. The authors prove that these biographies can be used to reconstruct the labor feat of the Soviet people at a turning point for the country - during the Great Patriotic War. The study concluded that the biography of the Hero of Socialist Labor was used in the development of a system of non-material incentives and education of labor discipline.
