Object's details: Reports from behind the “Red Curtain.” Experiencing the Border in Soviet Russia: Antoni Słonimski, Moja podróż do Rosji (1932) and Ante Ciliga U zemlji velike laži (1938)

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Title:
Reports from behind the “Red Curtain.” Experiencing the Border in Soviet Russia: Antoni Słonimski, Moja podróż do Rosji (1932) and Ante Ciliga U zemlji velike laži (1938)
Creator:
Szperlik, Ewa
Description:
This article presents a comparative analysis of the personal experiences and impressions of 1930s Russia, as recounted by two figures: A. Słonimski, the Polish poet, editor, and founder of the influential literary group “Skamander,” and A. Ciliga, a Croatian writer and former communist. Ciliga, an unruly Istrian, arrives in the “paradise of socialist progress” as a privileged foreign communist intellectual and university lecturer, only to end up imprisoned in the infamous Gulag system. In contrast, Słonimski, a customer of the state-run tourism agency Intourist and a journalist, travels across the Soviet Union, observing the inner workings of the Stalinist state and the pervasive taboos that shaped its atmosphere. Both autobiographical accounts offer valuable insights into the broader European context of the time. The experience of crossing borders – whether between capitalist and socialist societies, Western and Eastern Europe, or Europe and Asia – shapes the landscape, cities, and mentalities of the inhabitants in profound ways.
Object availability:
free access
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Prawa autorskie (c) 2025 Ewa Szperlik;
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Date:
2025.07.24
Type:
info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Language:
English
Source:
Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne; No. 28 (2025): Boundaries in literature – setting, erasing and transgressing; 279-299;
Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne; Nr 28 (2025): Granice w literaturze – wyznaczanie, zacieranie i przekraczanie; 279-299;
2450-2731;
2084-3011
Format:
application/pdf
Publisher:
Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/pss/article/view/49088/39921
Subject:
Soviet Union;
border;
Communism;
homo sovieticus;
autobiographism;
geopoetics;
travel writing
Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/pss/article/view/49088
Data provider:
Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM

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