RUSSIAN ÉMIGRÉS AS HEROES OF THE EUROPEAN RESISTANCE: THE CONSTRUCTION OF AN IMAGE IN THE ARTISTIC PRACTICES OF THE USSR IN THE POST-STALIN PERIOD

Abstract

The article analyzes the construction of the image of a Russian emigrant — a foreign compatriot — a hero of the resistance movement during the Second World War in the post-Stalin period. During this period, such artistic practices as literature, cinema, etc., acted as Soviet institutions of memory, broadcasting the new agenda of the Soviet state, which included former white emigrants — foreign compatriots in the pantheon of Soviet heroes. Particular attention is paid to the events of 1965, the year of the 20th anniversary of the Great Victory, which was a milestone both for the Soviet policy of memory and for the relationship between the Soviet government, society and foreign compatriots in general. The coming to power of a new generation of leaders of the USSR — former front-line soldiers was accompanied by the return of Victory Day (May 9) to the status of a national holiday in the USSR, and the memory of the war began to act as a national symbolic resource, including the memory of Russian emigrants — members of the Resistance movement. However, “trial” broadcast through artistic practices designed by the mid 1960s. The image of an emigrant — a hero of the European Resistance as a young Russian man of noble origin showed his ambivalence in a socialist society and for a long time he was not in demand by Soviet society and artistic practices, remaining mainly in the international sphere