Образы социально-политических преобразований в СССР в зарубежной эмигрантской прессе (1929 — конец 1930-х гг.)
Images of socio-political transformations in the USSR in the foreign expatriate press (1929 — late 1930s)

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to the analysis of materials of the expatriate periodicals of the interwar period, dedicated to political transformations in the USSR. The research focuses on the problem of the emigre images of the USSR, its people, the intelligentsia, the possibilities of communication abroad with them in order to influence the fate of the country. The press is analyzed as a social institution and a tool for the formation of an information picture and ideological attitudes. For the analysis of mass sources of periodicals (primarily information and journalistic materials), methods of content, discourse and intent analysis are used, which make it possible to study the content, thematic features of texts and the practical goals of their creation. The views of socialist, liberal, conservative émigré authors on the “key” events in the process of the formation of the socio-political model of Stalinism: “The Great Break” and the massive political campaigns of the second half of the 1930s are studied. Conclusions are made about the close relationship of personal experience and political and worldview positions of the authors with the picture of events they form. A significant interest of the emigre intelligentsia in the fate of the Soviet intelligentsia was established, with a significant pluralism of views on the mission of the intelligentsia in the USSR: from participation in constructive transformations to servile interaction with the totalitarian regime.

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