Albina Alekseevn Kozhaeva,
2nd Year Master’s Student, Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Speech Practices of Imitation of the Official Soviet Discourse in the Petitions of the Deprived to Power (1918–1936) (Based on the Materials of Western Siberia)
DOI: 10.31518/2618-9100-2022-6-2
The state, which set the purpose of the deprivation campaign to ensure control over potentially alien groups of the population (“former”, merchants and entrepreneurs, clergymen, etc.), achieved this with the help of a set of discriminatory restrictions accompanying disenfranchisement. The problem of studying various categories of deprived, despite a significant number of works devoted to this topic, doesn’t lose its relevance. The question of the possibilities and limitations of adaptation of the deprived in Soviet society requires further in-depth study. The article is devoted to the study of the language used by the deprived in ego documents in an effort to demonstrate their loyalty to the existing system. Based on the analysis of petitions for the restoration of the rights of the deprived of Novosibirsk, as well as the Maslyaninsky and Iskitimskiy districts of Western Siberia, the methods of self-identification of the discriminated with the category of full-fledged citizens of the Soviet society are reconstructed. In order to achieve the restoration of voting rights, the deprived used language constructions that, in their opinion, could lead to a positive decision of the authorities. We have established such specific tactics of the deprived as using the discourse of power to describe their own status, focusing on their real merits to society and the state, not only in the past and present, but also possible in the future. The use of excellent epithets describing the achievements of the state in petitions was an additional way to strengthen the expressions of political loyalty of the deprived to the new system.
Publishing: 28/12/2022
The article has been received by the editor on 29/09/2022
How to cite: Kozhaeva A.A. Speech Practices of Imitation of the Official Soviet Discourse in the Petitions of the Deprived to Power (1918–1936) (Based on the Materials of Western Siberia) // Historical Courier, 2022, No. 6 (26), pp. 29–38. [Available online: http://istkurier.ru/data/2022/ISTKURIER-2022-6-02.pdf]
Links: Issue 6 2022
Keywords: deprived; social and legal discrimination; marginality; discourse; loyalty; propaganda; Siberia; USSR