Pereiaslav in the World War II: 1941–1945.

Military confl icts are inherent in humanity throughout the entire historical process. An indispensable attribute of life is the confrontation and armed struggle between states, peoples and nations. The war looks like a negative phenomenon on the background of civilization’s remarkable achievements. At the same time the war acts as the engine that determines the periodic domination of one over the other. Therefore, the nature of interaction between people implies the emergence of armed confrontation by type «invader-defender». When humanity is entering into new civilizational realities, as a rule, it explodes by military confl icts, which are based on the ideology, economy, etc. In the past century, racial and class factors were the basis of intergovernmental confl icts at the global society. The confrontation of dictatorial regimes in this background became a reason of the largest tragedy in the terms of victims number – World War II. The historical realities of the life of Pereiaslav are used in the article to show the local vision of the events of the time. The author of the article uses the latest theoretical and methodological innovations in order to recreate the atmosphere of the war age on the basis of documentary sources, scientifi c assessments. The conclusion is made on the necessity of an objective study of this time interval at the local level