The history of the Fatherland, where a person lives, is always important not only for him, but for everyone. Scientist S.A. Krasilnikov in-depth and purposefully analyzed the material at the regional level. The value of his work is huge, because the fate of the repressed is a tragedy of the country.
Biography
The historian Krasilnikov Sergey Alexandrovich was born in 1949 in the Tomsk region, in the special settlement Narym, and grew up there until the age of six. In these places, dispossessed families were sent to exile in the 1930s. Among them were the ancestors of S. Krasilnikov. Parents were teachers.
Received higher education at Novosibirsk University. In his candidacy S. Krasilnikov analyzed the issue of the intelligentsia of Siberia during the approval of the Soviet government. He dedicated his doctoral dissertation to the socio-political development of the intelligentsia in Siberia from 1917 to 1930.
Memory of the repressed
For some time S. Krasilnikov worked as director of the Museum of the History of Bolshevik Exile. Fate gradually reduced the young man to the theme of Stalinist repressions. Modern life stubbornly led him in this historical direction. Then he took up the topic of "giving up".
In 1988, S. Krasilnikov published an article “Roots or Chips” in a city newspaper. This was the first publication in the Novosibirsk press, where he wrote about the fate of the exiled peasantry. When he came to Narym for the summer, people told him about what they experienced. Mother S. Krasilnikova, his relatives also remembered those events.
S. Krasilnikov supervised the release of documentary publications on the special settlers of Siberia and the archives of the Kremlin. For the “Book of Memory”, the historian, along with the Tomsk Memorial, collected information about peasant families who were exiled to the Narymsky Territory in the 1930s. So there was an exile-peasant direction.
S. Krasilnikova was always amazed at how peasant families managed to survive during the repression.
Historical views of the scientist
S. Krasilnikov works head. Department at Novosibirsk University. The thoughts of the scientist are relevant today. Collectivization, or repressive "peasantization, " was the greatest tragedy for Russia. The colossal movement of the peasantry into the cities caused a phenomenon - the "neighborhood" of industry. And so far it has not been fully investigated. Therefore, the creative work of the scientist continues. Referring to the results of research by social psychologists, the scientist believes that the penetration of the peasant mentality into the cities brought the traditional faith in the king-priest. Most people hope that someone will take responsibility for the country.
Analyzing the 90s of the XX century, S. Krasilnikov calls the grace period for historians, because then the declassification of documents began.
