Analysis of the ideological and political, agitation-propaganda discourses of the «red» and «white» during the Civil War: problem of studying and organizing data for research (based on materials from Perm provincial newspaper periodicals 1918–1919)

The article discusses the need and problems of organizing sources of data for the study of ideological and political and agitation-propaganda discourses of the “reds” and “whites” during the Civil War based on materials from the Perm province newspapers of 1918–1919. It is noted that the solution to these problems is determined by the tasks of study, using digital technologies and mainly reduced to ensuring the machine readability of data sources, their structuring and organization based on forms that allow machine processing. The main ways to solve these problems are the creation of digital sources of complexes based on source-oriented information systems, arrays in the form of file collections of publications in text formats and data in tabular forms. It is shown that solving the problems of organizing data creates the necessary conditions for the effective use of digital methods of analysis and obtaining the expected results at subsequent, analytical stages of the study.