Problemy ukraińskiego maskulinizmu. Choroba alkoholowa w Moscoviadzie Jurija Andruchowycza
Ukrainian masculinity and its discontens. Alcoholism in Yuri Andrukhovych’s The Moscoviad

Author(s): Mateusz Świetlicki
Subject(s): Studies of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Summary/Abstract: The author of this article examines the Soviet and post–Soviet alcoholism of men in The Moscoviad — Yuri Andrukhovych’s second novel published 1992, right after the collapse of communism. Starting with a description of homo sovieticus and the role of alcohol in the USSR, the author indicates that alcohol abuse was an abysmal social problem in the Soviet Union. What is more, by presenting the data concerning the Soviet and post-Soviet Ukrainian alcohol abuse, he argues that after a temporary increase of Ukrainian men’s life expectancy in the mid-1980s, it has gradually decreased in the last 26 years. By analyzing the issue of alcoholism in Andrukhovych’s novel, the author shows its importance in achieving stereotypical hegemonic masculinity.

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