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Golikov A.G.
Objective and subjective in historical
knowledge from the standpoint
of source studies
// History magazine - researches.
2012. № 3.
P. 24-28.
URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=59485
Golikov A.G. Objective and subjective in historical
knowledge from the standpoint
of source studies
Abstract:
the article makes an attempt to answer the question of whether science can give an objective historical knowledge
of past to the human societies from the positions of source studies. The author believes that while answering to this question
three things must be kept in mind: not all information was recorded on the validity of the contemporaries, and even the
information that was recorded, is not fully preserved, and for various reasons only partly available to scientists; historian
forming the source base for the work in his own turn selects the study material that the most relevant to the goals and objectives
of the study; the terms of the interests of the creators of the sources are always selective, so that historians use a subjective
reference picture of the past left by his contemporaries as a research base. Overcoming this is possible on the basis of the totality
of information on the events contained in the documents from the creators and publishers with different goals. Chances
to recreate a more objective picture of real past increases with the use an interdisciplinary approach in the historical research
and by inclusion to the source base both written and graphic materials. The task of the scientists in the search of historical
objectivity is to minimize their own subjectivity.
Keywords:
history, historical studies, objective and subjective, historical sources, the subjective picture of the past, the repository of sources, an interdisciplinary approach, specifically, the concrete-problem method, “colored books”, satirical graphics.
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