Open AccessBetween the Russian Village and the Industrialization: an Essay About the Works of A. I. Zavalishin
Author(s) -
Yulia S. Podlubnova
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
izvestiâ uralʹskogo federalʹnogo universiteta. seriâ 1. problemy obrazovaniâ, nauki i kulʹtury/izvestiâ uralʹskogo federalʹnogo universiteta. seriâ 1, problemy obrazovaniâ, nauki i kulʹtury
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2587-7151
pISSN - 2227-2275
DOI - 10.15826/izv1.2022.28.1.006
Subject(s) - epic , newspaper , ivanovich , realism , literature , rhetoric , russian literature , spanish civil war , industrialisation , history , art , sociology , media studies , philosophy , political science , russian federation , law , linguistics , archaeology , regional science
The article offers an overview of the work of the writer and playwright Alexander Ivanovich Zavalishin starting with his texts of the 1910s and ending with the book “The Budenny’s hut” (1938). The feuilletons of the 1920s published in the newspaper “The Soviet Truth” (Chelyabinsk) are considered for the first time. The evolution of A. I. Zavalishin is outlined. It associated with the formation of the Ural writer within “newspaper literature” and further steps towards the success of the Soviet author. He did not only portray the current everyday life but also promote the values that were actualized by Soviet rhetoric and precisely in those forms that were approved and were in demand by the time. In the 1920s he created satire and scenes from village life, comedies and revolutionary dramas, in the 1930s wrote epic production dramas, a book about the heroics of the Civil War. The movement of A. I. Zavalishin from social literature of the 1920s to socialist realism of the 1930s is shown.