Participants of the Russian-Japanese War and Their Concept of Historical Truth
The main idea of the article is to investigate the concept of historical truth as the element of the combatant’s intelligence. The topic was inspired by active disputes in the modern scientific society about the objectivity of the historical science and the capability to explore the past. Besides, many historians are eager to study psychology and perceptions. As a result nowadays history is focused on the people of the past and their way of thinking. That is why the author’s primary attention is given to the issue of combatants’ mentality. The memoirs of the participants of the Russo-Japanese War are analyzed and the author discovers the elements of historical perceptions. The combatants couldn’t agree with the official point of view of the Russian-Japanese War and developed their own, the "truthful" one. The memoirs were the only chance for them to present their battle experience and change the official attitude to the war and its soldiers.