"Soviet traumas": the testimony in Aleksandr Soljenítsyn, Liudmila Petruchévskaia, Svetlana Aleksiévitch and Alex Halberstadt
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2317-4765.rus.2023.213499Keywords:
Trauma, Generations, Soviet Union, TestimonyAbstract
The present paper aims to discuss different traumatic modalities in the construction of Soviet civilization and the "new" homo sovieticus through four testimonies from many generations: Aleksandr Soljenítsyn (1918-2008), Liudmila Petruchévskaia (1938-?), Svetlana Aleksiévitch (1948-?) e Alex Halberstadt (1970-?). In the pen of these writers, the "great facts" are subsumed in individual and collective histories: in the bodies of the zeks, of the families, of the women, of the youth, of the ethnic groups and, finally, in the communist memory of those who believed and were surprised by the end, the so-called, pejoratively, sovok
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