Everyday Life of Petrograd Residents in Military Communism (1918-1920): Photograph Collection from the SCMCHR
The article deals with the history of everyday life, which today encourages great attention of the researchers. The author tries to introduce into academic use a source analysis of a photograph collection of 1918-1920 from the State Central Museum of Contemporary History of Russia. The author outlines the specific features of photography as a historical source: its visual expression, information value, reliability and creative value in showing life details of common people in a complicated post-revolutionary period of Russian history.