Title of the article:

DISAGREEMENT. ON DE-COLLECTIVIZATION OF THE NINETIES AND ITS REFLECTION IN THE PHILOSOPHICAL PROSE OF VALENTIN RASPUTIN AND ROMAN SENCHIN

Author(s):

Sergey A. Nikolsky

Information about the author/authors

Sergey A. Nikolsky — DSc in Philosophy, Head of Department of Philosophy of Culture, Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences, 12/1 Goncharnaya St., 109240 Moscow, Russia. E-mail: s-nickolsky@yandex.ru

Section

Theory and history of culture

Year

2018

Volume

Vol. 50

Pages

pp. 35–47

Received

March 26, 2018

Date of publication

December 28, 2018

Index UDK

008+130.2

Index BBK

83.3(2Рос=Рус)+63.3(2)64

Abstract

Forced de-collectivization of the Russian village (albeit possible in free format in a longer term) held in the nineties of the 20th century, led to the destruction of the livelihood of tens of millions of peasants and their families. Although this recent domestic tragedy has not yet received its philosophical and artistic interpretation in the literature — new “great crisisˮ and gigantic constructions made in the USSR and new Russia on great rivers, both antihumanistic, are  subject to comparison. For this reason, analysis of flooding displayed in the works of Valentin Rasputin and Roman Senchin is quite applicable to the process of de-collectivization. In both cases — the eviction of peasants from the land with subsequent flooding or de-collectivization as eviction with subsequent formation of private estates — we see a new historical repression. The paper stresses that its understanding and condemnation is a necessary condition for cultural and legal transformation of the country.

Keywords

culture, history, literature, new people, peasants, farmers, society, social consciousness, personality, activity

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