Issue 2 (59)
| CHELYABINSK OF THE FIRST THIRD OF THE 20TH CENTURY IN THE MEMOIRS OF K. N. TEPLOUKHOV | |||
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| Year | 2018 | Number | 2(59) |
| Pages | 102-108 | Type | scientific article |
| UDC | 82.091 | BBK | 84-49 |
| Authors | Zhuravleva Nelli S. |
Topic | SELF DESCRIPTION LANGUAGES |
| Summary | A case study of a province phenomenon based on the memoirs by K. N. Teploukhov where the general picture was built around a story of one family. This explained the minimum of the official discourse, the concentration on local events, the triviality of individual stories. However the emphasis on “lagging behind” the capital and the provincial “weakness” was left outside the self-description text. The “periphery” quality was shown as an advantage during the periods of social cataclysms. The routinization, “invention of traditions”, the slowing down of the individual and the social time were for the author a means to gain ground under his feet after 1917. Retirement, a move to the countryside, ignoring the media, restricting contacts by the “former” acquaintances group — all this among other things helped the author in escaping the Soviet environment. The time modus was shown via perception of the “new” as an impaired version of the “old”. This inter alia explained many of the “reticence zones” (Newspeak, the party, “epochal construction projects”). Obvious gaps in the text were formed by the absence of any mention of the USSR (only once there was a reference to a “Seseria”) or the name of Stalin. However, what was left outside the narrative was nonetheless described. In that sense the reproduction of the region's portrait in the K. N. Teploukhov’s memoirs may be seen as the self-description of Chelyabinsk of the first third of the 20th century, and the reconstruction of the past life as a set of individual self-description languages. | ||
| Keywords | (self) description, diaries, K. N. Teploukhov, Chelyabinsk, the first third of the 20th century | ||
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