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The main peculiarity and, at the same time, the main difficulty in the analysis of mass consciousness is that the historian must collect and assimilate the opinions of as many persons as possible of those who were living at the time, concerning both their general attitudes and their approach to concrete political issues. Anyone who has worked with mass sources, especially on social history, would in my opinion agree how difficult this task is, physically, mentally, psychologically and methodologically. A huge mass of ‘human’ material (that is, material linked with human life) has to be assimilated and then interpreted.
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Davidian, I. (1999). Mass Political Consciousness in Soviet Russia in the 1920s. In: McDermott, K., Morison, J. (eds) Politics and Society under the Bolsheviks. International Council for Central and East European Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-27717-9_6
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