ИЗВЕСТИЯ СОИГСИ

Keywords: Stavropol Region, Great Patriotic War, Battle of the Caucasus, historiography.

This review provides an assessment of the collective work of historians of the Stavropol Area, devoted to the study of poorly or completely unexplored aspects of the Battle of the Caucasus during the Great Patriotic War. The main focus was on the regional component of one of the most important war episode. What role in the plans of the Nazis was assigned to the Battle of the Caucasus? What means were they supposed to realize and what prevented their accurate implementation? How did the Caucasus defend itself, and how was the regional specificity manifested in this process? These and some other issues were considered in the monograph under review. For a long time there were no summarizing works on the regional history of the Caucasus in that most difficult period of the life of the state. In connection with the preparations for the celebration of the 75th anniversary of the Great Victory, the team of Stavropol authors published a major work on the history of the Stavropol region, North Ossetia and other regions of the Caucasus during the Great Patriotic War. In modern conditions, a new, systematic reading of these events is required, not only victorious but also tragic, extracting the moral sources of the Victory for every nation. The source base of the monograph is represented by numerous, diverse sources: materials of federal and regional archives, memories of participants in the events, statistical data. An important aspect of the book is a comprehensive analysis of the main aspects of the life of the population of Stavropol as a region of the Caucasus during the Great Patriotic War. On the local material (which is especially important), the authors, as they say, «from the inside,» consider various aspects of those events, displaying and analyzing various information: about the course of hostilities, about the difficulties caused by the specifics of the region, about its social life.

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