Genesis of the Soviet travelogue: Guidebooks to the Volga in the early 20th century
https://doi.org/10.26907/2074-0239-2021-66-4-150-156
Abstract
The study of the travelogue as a historical source is carried out in the context of representation of the province artistic images, the Volga and Russia. The objects of our research are pre-revolutionary and Soviet guides to the Volga, chosen as a representative tourist destination. The factors that influenced the formation of Soviet travelogues are identified based on the comparison of the techniques of modeling the travel space in the imperial and Soviet discourse. The article discusses approaches to the study of travelogues in modern science and the history of Russian and Soviet guidebooks as a means for representing the socio-cultural space. The article examines characteristic features of guidebooks and travelogues in the early 20th century in the context of their influence on the specifics of Soviet guidebooks as phenomena of mass culture. Key trends in the development of the Soviet guide are identified: standardization, popularization of scientific knowledge, depersonification of the author, emphasis on ideologically soughtafter dominants of urban space. The article highlights the interrelation of the key texts in terms of the problem under study – the guidebooks by N. Bogolyubov, A. Beschinsky, G. Moskvich, V. Gilyarovsky, A. Subbotin and P. Kritsky, revealing the general content and stylistic features of Soviet guidebooks and travelogues of the 1920s - 1930s (M. Gorky, I. Ilf, E. Petrov). We describe the role of the guidebook in creating a new system of cultural landmarks, relevant for the Soviet state and localized in the travel space.
Supporting agencies: The article was carried out under the grant of the Russian Science Foundation No. 20-68-46013 "Philosophical and anthropological analysis of Soviet existence. Background, dynamics, impact on modernity"
About the Author
M. Aleksandrova
Yaroslavl State Pedagogical University named after K. D. Ushinsky
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Maria Vyacheslavovna Aleksandrova, Ph.D. in History
150000
108/1Respublikanskaya Str.
Yaroslavl
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Aleksandrova M. Genesis of the Soviet travelogue: Guidebooks to the Volga in the early 20th century. Philology and Culture. 2021;(4):150-156. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.26907/2074-0239-2021-66-4-150-156
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