Ego-documents as a Source on the History of the Political Crisis in the Middle Urals in 1993
The political crisis in Russia in the early 1990s led to the formation of quasi-state formations in many regions of the country, the purpose of which was to equalize the rights of regions and territories to the level of autonomous republics. The most famous of them was the Ural Republic, established in 1993 on the territory of the Sverdlovsk region. Interest in the circumstances of the creation of this phenomenon has not subsided until now. The Ural Republic differs from this kind of quasi-state entities in that it actually existed for 132 days. Over the three decades that have passed since the formation of the Ural Republic, a large amount of journalistic and scientific literature has appeared devoted to understanding the reasons that led to the creation of the Ural Republic, its place in the political landscape of the Russian Federation in the early 1990s. Interest in the circumstances of the creation of the Ural Republic is shown not only by Russian, but also by foreign scientists. In this literature, a wide variety of opinions are expressed on this issue. The discourse of modern historiography is conducted primarily in the political plane. Scientists argue about whether in the history of the creation of the Ural Republic there was only the desire of the leadership of the Sverdlovsk region to equalize the rights of regions and territories to the level of autonomous republics, or it was a manifestation of separatist tendencies. As a result of the activities of the Ural Republic, a complex of various types of documents was postponed. The most important among them are documents of personal origin, the analysis of which is devoted to this article.