“And the country forgot them for a long time the living people had something more important to do...” (Vladimir Tydman. “To the battlefield burial searchers [Poiskovikam]”). A review of the book: Sadovnikov, S. (2017), “The war shares me...”. Comprehensive exploratory research as the basis for the reconstruction of the biographies of the participants in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945. Moscow, Russia

The article presents a review of the monograph by S. Sadovnikov “ ‘Voina uchastvuet vo mne...’. Comprehensive exploratory research as the basis for the reconstruction of the biographies of the participants in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945” (M., 2017). The author of the article analyzes the main provisions of the monograph, reveals its positive and negative sides. It should be noted that S. Sadovnikov is an active participant in the search movement and the peer-reviewed monograph incorporates his experience of the many years of working experience in the field of integrated exploratory research.

The book under review is devoted to a new promising area of studying the history of the Great Patriotic War – reconstruction of the front-line biography. The research presents both the theoretical aspects of the above line of study and the practical recommendations for the reconstruction of the biographies of the Red Army worriers. It should be noted that in his work S. Sadovnikov introduces the author’s algorithm for reconstructing the front-line biography, in which the analysis of archival documents and materials plays an important part.

Another topic covered in the monograph is the issue of memorialization in the history of the Great Patriotic War. Thereat, the role of modern information technologies in preserving the memory of the war is especially emphasized. In particular, the most promising and dynamically developing projects in this area are considered to be the following: the site of the OBD “Memorial”, the project “Podvig naroda (The Great Deed of the People)” and the portal “Pamyat’ naroda (The Memory of the People)”.

This work would be appealing to everyone who is interested in the history of the Great Patriotic War.

1. Sadovnikov, S.I. (2017), “Voina uchastvyet vo mne...”. Kompleksnye poiskovye issledovaniya kak osnova rekonstruktsii biografii uchastnikov Velikoi Otechestvennoi voiny 1941–1945 gg. [“The war shares me…...”. Comprehensive exploratory research as the basis for the reconstruction of biographies of participants in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945]. Moscow, Russia.