scholarly journals Las referencias históricas de la época soviética y su tratamiento en la traducción: el caso de Svetlana Aleksiévich

Hikma ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-152
Author(s):  
Margarita Savchenkova
Keyword(s):  
Homo Sovieticus

En el presente artículo, analizamos cómo varios traductores a idiomas europeos abordan la traducción de las referencias históricas de la época soviética, presentes en Vremja sekond hènd (El fin del «Homo sovieticus»), una obra literaria de Svetlana Aleksiévich. El abismo entre la cultura rusa y las de los países occidentales hace que gran cantidad de las referencias al pasado de la URSS resulte opaca para el público lector del Oeste. Debido a reiteradas apariciones de estas en la obra objeto de estudio, los traductores se ven obligados a decidir qué procedimientos de traducción pueden emplear para transmitir el significado de dichas referencias, en qué casos tienen que conservarlas tal cual y hasta qué punto necesitan acercar el texto al lector. Con el fin de detectar posibles dificultades a la hora de traducir elementos propios de la historia soviética y ejemplificar las estrategias aplicadas, estudiamos el trasvase del texto original ruso a cuatro idiomas: francés, portugués, español e inglés. Tras clasificar las referencias históricas y contrastar su tratamiento en el corpus, podemos concluir que la selección de los procedimientos de traducción varía no solo en función de la referencia en cuestión y el contexto en el que figura, sino también en función del género al que el traductor y la editorial atribuyen la obra.

Austerity against the Homo Sovieticus

Focaal ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 (59) ◽  
pp. 51-65
Author(s):  
Daiva Repečkait
Keyword(s):  
Public Discourse ◽  
Lower Class ◽  
Shock Therapy ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Class Background ◽  
The Media ◽  
Economic Shock ◽  
Homo Sovieticus

This article analyzes the public discourse on the riots of 16 January 2009, in Vilnius, when protest against economic shock therapy ended in violent clashes with the police. Politicians and the media were quick to ethnicize the riots, claiming an “involvement of foreign influences” and noting that the rioters had been predominantly “Russian-speaking.” Analyzing electronic and print media, the article identifies a wider tendency, particularly among middle-class Lithuanian youth, of portraying the social class consisting of “losers of the post-soviet transition” as aggressive and primitive Others. A pseudo-ethnicity that combines Rus sian language and culture with lower-class background into a notion of homo sovieticus comes to stand for what is hindering the “clean up” of Lithuania and middleclass aspirations to form a new European identity. As such, the riots serve as a lens that illuminates the way ethnicity is flexibly utilized to shift political loyalties.

The Return of the “Soviet” through the “National” in Post-Soviet Russia

2020 ◽  
pp. 3-29
Author(s):  
Gulnaz Sharafutdinova
Keyword(s):  
Collective Identity ◽  
Social Identity Theory ◽  
Analytical Approach ◽  
Public Support ◽  
Culturally Based ◽  
Central Argument ◽  
Significant Achievement ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
Soviet Russia ◽  
Homo Sovieticus

The first chapter examines the phenomenon of a visible return of Soviet practices and institutions in “post-Crimea” Russia, along with the rising public support and approval for Joseph Stalin. Arguing against culturally based explanations that focus on the legacy of the Soviet man (homo sovieticus), it views these recent trends as a sign of strengthening of the Russian nationals’ sense of collective identity that is argued to be the most socially and politically significant achievement of Vladimir Putin’s leadership. This chapter presents the central argument of the book and the analytical approach that builds on social identity theory to explain “mature Putinism.”

scholarly journals After homo sovieticus: Democratic governance gaps and societal vulnerabilities in the EU’s eastern neighbourhood

European View ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-162
Author(s):  
Igor Merheim-Eyre
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Democratic Governance ◽  
The State ◽  
Social And Cultural Capital ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Homo Sovieticus ◽  
The Eu

This article explores three intertwining issues facing the countries in the EU’s eastern neighbourhood: (1) the continued legacy of homo sovieticus or the ‘Soviet Man’, (2) the state of democratic governance and (3) societal vulnerabilities. Existing since the collapse of the Soviet Union, they can be seen as both barriers to reform as well as vulnerabilities exploited by domestic and foreign actors for the purposes of division and subversion. The article argues that if the EU or the wider transatlantic community wants to support the countries of the eastern neighbourhood on their road to security, democracy and prosperity, we must place the dignity of the individual at the heart of our policies. This requires (a) fostering deeper social and cultural capital, and (b) ensuring that we strengthen the resilience of society rather than that of autocratic leaders and oligarchic structures.

Was There a “Simple Soviet” Person? Debating the Politics and Sociology of “Homo Sovieticus”

Slavic Review ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 78 (01) ◽  
pp. 173-195 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gulnaz Sharafutdinova
Keyword(s):  
State Of The Art ◽  
Soviet Society ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Individual Personality ◽  
Soviet Scholar ◽  
The Media ◽  
Interpretative Approach ◽  
Frequent Reference ◽  
Homo Sovieticus

Intellectual efforts to understand post-Crimean Russian society have brought to prominence explanations that emphasize psychological and attitudinal legacies of Soviet society. The recent revival of the term homo sovieticus (or Soviet man) in the media and intellectual discourse is a good illustration of this trend. Yurii Levada's late-Soviet sociological research project on the “simple Soviet man” serves as a frequent reference point in these discussions. In this article, I explore the ideological and analytical foundations of the Levada project and juxtapose the sociological construct developed by Levada and his team with the interpretative approach developed by Natalya Kozlova, another Soviet scholar who dedicated her life to studying Soviet society. I argue that essentialist and deterministic views of individual personality underpinning the Levada project that guide the current use of the Soviet man category are more politically and ideologically driven rather than being based on the state of the art in social psychology.

"Homo Sovieticus" Five Years Later: 1989-1994

1996 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-19
Author(s):  
Iurii Levada
Keyword(s):  
Homo Sovieticus

scholarly journals Types of Existence in the Romance Vilnius Poker by Ričardas Gavelis

2012 ◽  
Vol 22 (27) ◽  
pp. 180-189
Author(s):  
Lina Buividavičiūtė
Keyword(s):  
Human Being ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Modern Conception ◽  
Theoretical Part ◽  
Authentic Existence ◽  
The World ◽  
The Senses ◽  
Homo Sovieticus

The reception of Ričardas Gavelis’s works still remains problematic. The conception of the author’s novels is controversial, balancing between theories of modernism and postmodernism. This article focuses on one of Gavelis’s most significant novels, Vilnius poker. The analysis is based on the assumption that the postmodern structure hides the modern conception of the novel. The aims of the article are to actualize a modernpostmodern poetics and to analyze the types of existence in the romance. The possibilities of an authentic existence are analyzed in contrast to the monological, postcolonialistic “broken human being”. The analysis of the concept of authentic being is based on the philosophies of Heidegger and Kierkegaard. The concepts of dialogical and monological being are based on the works of Bakhtin and Buber. The article is based on hermeneutic methodology and the theory of dialogue. The concept of authentic being is analyzed in the context of existentialism.In the theoretical part, the author describes the problems of authentic dialogical being in general, and analyses the context of existentialism and the differences between dialogue and monologue. In the first practical part, the types of the monological being in Vilnius poker are analyzed. In the second one, the concept of authentic being in Vilnius poker is analyzed.The article draws the following conclusions: the authentic being is dialogical, polyphonic, polemic; the non-authentic being is monologicalsolypsistic-not asking, not polemic, not questioning the secrets of being, and telling only one “truth.” The monological being of the novel Vilnius poker is typical of homo lituanicus and homo sovieticus existential characters. The authentic being characterizes the protagonist Vytautas Vargalys. The dialogism of true existence is expressed by rebellious, unmasking being, the polemic with himself, the gifts of the world (inner monologue), and the others (real dialogue). The authentic being of Vytautas Vargalys is created from the senses (smell), bodies (eroticism), speaking, and musical dialogues. Unfortunately, the main character is unable to fully express his authentic being: the monological atmosphere, broken identity, and non-telling language are the main impediments to living a true dialogical life.

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