Dorotea PETERS. Politische und gesellschaftliche Vorstellungen in der Aufstandsbewegung unter Pugacev (1773 - 1775). Osteuropa- lnstitut...Wiesbaden. 1973. 364 S. D. PETERS. POLITICAL AND SOCIAL REPRESENTATIONS IN THE INSURGENT MOVEMENT UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF PUGACHEV (1773-1775) The book by a West German historian is a notable phenomenon in the study of the Peasant War of 1773-1775 in the West, where the "Pugachev theme" is not very popular among researchers. It is also of particular interest to .historians of our country, since the ideology of the Pugachovites in Soviet historical science has not yet been studied sufficiently- page 199 The social and political views of the opponents of the Pugachev uprising, which were reflected in their reaction to it (Peters discusses these views in the second part of his monograph), were almost completely ignored by Soviet scientists. The choice of the Peters topic can be considered very successful: on the basis of published sources alone (the author did not use archival materials), a specialist can make many important observations. The book contains a large number of different conclusions, it is impossible to say about all of them in the review (we will focus on the most significant ones). A positive aspect of D. Peters ' study of the Pugachev ideology is that she pays attention not only to the program statements of the rebels, but also to their actions, which were based on "unformulated or unclear ideas" (p.10). The author's attempt to find out the peculiarities of the ideology of various social categories of the population that participated in the uprising is also worthy of approval. Separate sections of the first part of the book are devoted to the socio-political views of the Yaitsk Cossacks, "non-Russian participants" in the uprising, Ural workers, peasants and other insurgents, and at the beginning of each such essay data on the situation of these groups of participants in the movement are given. However, the possibilit ... Читать далее