«Former people» in the social structure of a provincial city in 1917–1919: experience in creating and processing databases (based on materials from Tambov)

Abstract

The article considers the problems of regional peculiarities of social status and social trajectories caused by the revolutionary transformations in Russia, representatives of the former propertied strata of a provincial city in 1917-1919 on the micro level, based on mass personalized sources, through the prism of the destinies of specific people. The sources, structure and research potential of source-oriented databases are described.