A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal

BUILDING OF AN AVERAGE WOMAN IMAGE IN MEMOIRS ON MAKHNOVSHCHINA




AuthorsSimonova Olga A

PublisherSTATE ACAD SLAVIC CULTURE

Publication year2020

JournalVestnik Slavianskikh Kultur -Bulletin of Slavic Cultures

Journal name in sourceVESTNIK SLAVIANSKIKH KULTUR-BULLETIN OF SLAVIC CULTURES-SCIENTIFIC AND INFORMATIONAL JOURNAL

Journal acronymVESTN SLAVIANSKIKH K

Volume58

First page 225

Last page234

Number of pages10

ISSN2073-9567

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.37816/2073-9567-2020-58-225-234(external)

Web address http://vestnik-sk.ru/russian/archive/2020/tom-58/simonova(external)

Self-archived copy’s web addresshttps://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/https://research.utu.fi/converis/mypages/editor/Publication/178713832/open_access_section(external)


Abstract
The study addresses the memoirs of Natalia Sukhogorskaya "The memory of the Makhnovshchina" (1927) to restore the life of an ordinary woman under the power of Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine. In the Nestor Makhno's capital Huliaipole, autobiographical heroine immerses herself in the atmosphere filled with legends about Makhno. Thus the author generates two narrative tendencies: autobiographical and folkloric ones. The rumors nurture the autobiographical heroine's fears. From this perspective, author shows the identities of the heroine. The first of them - the motherhood - is not jeopardized under Makhno since he is friendly to children. The second is the refugee. Affiliation to the female sex also protects Sukhogorskaya under the rebels' sway. School as her job gives her an inviolable status. Her more vulnerable position is related to her identity as intelligentsia representative, seeing that the rebels didn't like this social stratum. The perspectives of author and autobiographical heroine are often intersecting, yet the paper proves able to clarify the author's functions who acts as a writer giving characteristics of internal movements of his personages. The author also appears as a historian who generalizes in hindsight and as a folklorist who records and reproduces oral stories, legends and rumors of the Civil war times. Fear for the life and the desire to survive become main motivators for the residents during the war, so that against this backdrop the author' s political views remain unclear.



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