The Russian Revolution, Russian Captivity, and Return to the Motherland in the Autobiographical Novels of Rodion Markovits
For the first time in the Russian language, this article explores two novels by Hungarian writer Rodion Markovits Siberian Garrison and Gold Train, underlining the elements in their plot that illustrate the attitude towards the Russian events of the post-revolutionary period and the Russian people i...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Russian |
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Ural Federal University Press
2017-10-01
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| Series: | Известия Уральского федерального университета. Серия 2: Гуманитарные науки |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.urfu.ru/index.php/Izvestia2/article/view/2617 |
| Summary: | For the first time in the Russian language, this article explores two novels by Hungarian writer Rodion Markovits Siberian Garrison and Gold Train, underlining the elements in their plot that illustrate the attitude towards the Russian events of the post-revolutionary period and the Russian people in the vortex of revolutionary changes. The first of these novels, Siberian Garrison (1927), caused a huge uproar when it was first published, being one of the earliest European artistic texts about Russian captivity and post-revolutionary Russia in general. It describes the path of prisoners of war across the country right to the Far East, as well as the routine of two-year captivity. The novel Gold Train (1929) tells of the period after the Brest Peace, the return of Austro-Hungarian soldiers to their homeland through Russia seized by revolution. In addition to observations concerning the perception of Russian culture, history, and human psychology by a Hungarian character, the article contains conclusions about the special historical and psychological reliability of auto-documentary artistic texts, which are the novels by Rodion Markovits, the writer that came up with a new genre of the collective report novel. |
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| ISSN: | 2227-2283 2587-6929 |