From the Editor
The thematic issue of the Journal includes articles dealing with problems of oral history in the light of formation and development of this scientific discipline, its place within the inter-disciplinary matrix of the humanities, the use of special methods and approaches of historical research, debates on the national and foreign experience, specifics of oral sources and creation of the research centers specializing in sources of this type.
Oral history is commonly understood as a research area or scientific discipline using its own method – an interview which helps to create a new historical source (document) based on the empirical experience and individual/social memory of participants or eyewitnesses of historical events or past life.