Memoirs as Cultural Phenomenon and Historical Source

The article analyzes the role of memoirs as the native culture phenomenon, process and means of introducing memoirs to the social and scientific and educational practice. The author considers the Russian historians' views development on theoretical and methodological problems of memoirs studies. There are shown the offered variants and achieved results of development of defining «memoirs», studies of their specific peculiarities, principles and schemes of memoirs systematization as well as the criteria of defining their scientific and educational value as historical sources.

memoirs, reminiscences, historical source, personality nature of events perception, information subjectivity, V.S. Golubtsov, S.S. Dmitriev, P.A. Zaionchkovsky, S.S. Mints, E.V. Tarle, A.G. Tartakovsky