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In a Wonderland They Lie? Today’s Russia: A Testimony of the New Soviet Enthusiasm in the 1930s by August Cesarec
In a Wonderland They Lie? Today’s Russia: A Testimony of the New Soviet Enthusiasm in the 1930s by August Cesarec // Avtobiografija. Journal on Life Writing and the Representation of the Self in Russian Culture, 9 (2020), 9; 179-198 (međunarodna recenzija, članak, znanstveni)
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Naslov
In a Wonderland They Lie? Today’s Russia: A Testimony of the New
Soviet Enthusiasm in the 1930s by August Cesarec
Autori
Peruško, Ivana
Izvornik
Avtobiografija. Journal on Life Writing and the Representation of the Self in Russian Culture (2281-6992) 9
(2020), 9;
179-198
Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni
Ključne riječi
Testimonies of Russian visitors ; Soviet Enthusiasm of the 1930s ; Lotman’s facts of the epoch ; Today’s Russia ; August Cesarec
Sažetak
This article examines a set of ego-documents (Today’s Russia by A. Cesarec) to pose a question: does the paradigm of fear in Stalin’s 1930s exclude the paradigm of enthusiasm? Have the memories of the horrors and fears of the Great Terror and the Gulag era erased the memory of the enthusiastic atmosphere and happiness of the Soviet Golden Age? Cesarec’s Today’s Russia evokes the same skepticism which, according to Kuromiya, Western historiography held towards Soviet memoirs on their exploits and successes in the 1930s, labelling them as Soviet propaganda, i.e. historically improbable material, lakirovka or fraud. The main task of this article is to decipher, i.e. to reconstruct, Cesarec’s image of the ‘facts of the epoch’, as Iurii Lotman put it in his book Within Thinking Worlds.
Izvorni jezik
Engleski
Znanstvena područja
Književnost
