THE SOCREALISTIC PROPAGANDA AND THE POST-COMMUNIST AXIOLOGICAL EMPTINESS (VLADIMIR VOINOVICH: THE MONUMENTAL PROPAGANDA)

• Authors: Duda K.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

In his latest novel 'Monumental propaganda' Vladimir Voynovich, in a satirical way, shows the difficult history of Russia from the revolution of 1917 until 'perestroika'. The main heroine - Aglaya Revkina - is literally looking after the monument of Stalin, treating it as a real, alive man. This, of course, is a metaphor of the totalitarian system, which kills man's thoughts and mentality. By the way, nowadays Soviet monuments have become a new and dangerous problem in the international politics. It turned out that the collapse of communism was only symbolical. All changes are shallow and people have a 'new god' - money. They kill each other in order to become rich and, in their opinion, happy. That is why new Russia is suffering again.

Keywords

EN

RUSSIA AFTER COMMUNISM; VOINOVICH VLADIMIR ('MONUMENTAL PROPAGANDA')

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk
• Journal: Slavia Orientalis
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 57
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 83-95
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Duda K.

• K. Duda, Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Instytut Rosji i Europy Wschodniej, al. Mickiewicza 3, 31-120 Kraków, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

08PLAAAA04979473