It is already the tenth year in succession that the international „Memorial“ Organization has been arranging the All-Russian Competition of historic expositions of students of the upper classes “Man in history . Russia – 20th century”. Although the participants of the competition are yet students, many of the papers are on a high scientific level. But the most essential about these expositions is the very attentive and thoughtful attitude of their authors towards entirely banal, but nevertheless rather significant details.
Contrary to the prevalent opinion, the subject matters of the competition do not exclusively deal with the history of political repressions: the papers are headed “The history of a family”, “Man and society”, “Man and authority” or “Man and his little home village”; for publication in the “Book of Memory”, however, we just selected those papers, which straigthly refwer to political repressions.
We recommend to publish the expositions of Tatiana Karpovich from Shushenskoe and Svetlana Sagalakova from Kortuz. In one and the same year two papers took part in the competition, which are both about our remarkable fellow countrymen Ivan Nikitich Krasnov and Vladimir Grigorevich Vorobev – two friends who were sentenced by the same bill of indictment, two extraordinary creative men, whose lives were destroyed by the machinery of repressions.
Aleksei Babiy
Coordinator of the competition
for the Krasnoyarsk Territory and the Republic of Khakassia