OBRAZ POLSKI I POLAKÓW W POWOJENNEJ ROSYJSKIEJ PROZIE RADZIECKIEJ
THE IMAGE OF POLAND AND THE POLES IN POSTWAR SOVIET RUSSIAN PROSE

Summary/Abstract: The author in his article tries to give an outline and evaluation of Polish problems presentedin Soviet Russian prose from the years of the Second World War to the present time. Aboveall he noteced the evolution in the treatment of Poland and the Poles by Soviet writers. Russian prose at the beginning (1941-1956) focused on the war image of the Poles, by the development of the motif of the brothehood of arms, martyrdom and reconstruction afterthe war (Polevoy, Grossman, Slavin, Karavaeva). From the year 1957 there has been a decided widening and deepening not only of war themes (Semjonov, Baklanov, Bogomolov and others) but also the first attempts have been made at the depiction of contemporary Poland and the Poles, this deviating from the fixed of the preceding period or from before the war (Paustovski, Iroshnikova, Juzovsky, Konstantinovsky, and others). The evolution of Polish postwar problematics in Soviet Russian prose is dependent not only on the political situation, but on ideological and aesthetic tendencies.

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