War diaries of Tatar writers: The path to the reader through censorship
https://doi.org/10.26907/2782-4756-2025-80-2-204-211
Abstract
The article is devoted to the problem of the frontline diary genre transformation into fiction, documentary and autobiographical prose. The military diaries of the Tatar writers-veterans: Gusman Fatkhullovich Bakirov (1896–1962), Adip Malikovich Malikov (1921–2009), Muzagit Khairutdinovich Khairutdinov (1901–1944) and Amirkhan Nigmetzyanovich Yenikeev (1909–2000) provided the material for this study. The article studies the history of the existence of these writers’ military diaries and reconstructs the history of their publication. We consider various strategies for the transformation of the texts into works of fiction: a portrait essay, poem and an autobiographical novel. We prove that the logic of the author’s thought transformation depends on the nature of public and social life during the creation of literary texts. Comparative analysis allowed us to comprehend the logic of the text transformation. The archives have preserved the original texts of the diaries, which were not distorted by self-censorship and censorship. We prove that the writers resorted to nonlinear time during the transformation in order to convey the depth of life; they renamed the characters in order to reach artistic generalizations; their observations of contemporaries turned into artistic images built in accordance with Soviet archetypes. The presentation of these diaries’ authors in posthumous editions depended entirely on the will of their compilers-editors who transformed these texts depending on their own tasks.
About the Authors
A. Yu. Khabutdinov
Kazan branch of V. M. Lebedev Russian State University of Justice
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Khabutdinov Aidar Yurievich, Doctor of History, Professor
7ª, 2nd Azinskaya Str., Kazan, 420088
M. M. Khabutdinova
Kazan Federal University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Khabutdinova Mileusha Mukhametsyanovna, Ph.D. in Philology, Associate Professor, Senior Researcher at the Research Center for Strategic Research in the Field of Native Languages and Cultures,
18 Kremlyovskaya Str., Kazan, 420008
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Khabutdinov A.Yu., Khabutdinova M.M. War diaries of Tatar writers: The path to the reader through censorship. Philology and Culture. 2025;(2):204-211. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.26907/2782-4756-2025-80-2-204-211
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