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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Main Author: Erzsébet Schiller
Format: Article
Language:Russian
Published: Ural Federal University Press 2017-10-01
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
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description 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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spelling doaj.art-5cb35eb9e2c74f66886abbfae4fb92af2022-12-22T01:36:51ZrusUral Federal University PressИзвестия Уральского федерального университета. Серия 2: Гуманитарные науки2227-22832587-69292017-10-01193(166)16417310.15826/izv2.2017.19.3.0502263The Russian Revolution, Russian Captivity, and Return to the Motherland in the Autobiographical Novels of Rodion MarkovitsErzsébet Schiller0Университет им. Лоранда Этвеша, Филологический центр, г. СомбатхейFor 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.https://journals.urfu.ru/index.php/Izvestia2/article/view/2617Родион Марковичвенгерские военнопленныеПервая мировая войнагражданская война в Россииавтодокументальная проза.
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The Russian Revolution, Russian Captivity, and Return to the Motherland in the Autobiographical Novels of Rodion Markovits
Известия Уральского федерального университета. Серия 2: Гуманитарные науки
Родион Маркович
венгерские военнопленные
Первая мировая война
гражданская война в России
автодокументальная проза.
title The Russian Revolution, Russian Captivity, and Return to the Motherland in the Autobiographical Novels of Rodion Markovits
title_full The Russian Revolution, Russian Captivity, and Return to the Motherland in the Autobiographical Novels of Rodion Markovits
title_fullStr The Russian Revolution, Russian Captivity, and Return to the Motherland in the Autobiographical Novels of Rodion Markovits
title_full_unstemmed The Russian Revolution, Russian Captivity, and Return to the Motherland in the Autobiographical Novels of Rodion Markovits
title_short The Russian Revolution, Russian Captivity, and Return to the Motherland in the Autobiographical Novels of Rodion Markovits
title_sort russian revolution russian captivity and return to the motherland in the autobiographical novels of rodion markovits
topic Родион Маркович
венгерские военнопленные
Первая мировая война
гражданская война в России
автодокументальная проза.
url https://journals.urfu.ru/index.php/Izvestia2/article/view/2617
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