Free Time and Recreation of Citizens in the Visual Images of the Soviet Press of the 1920s
- Authors: Klinova M.A.1, Trofimov A.V.2,3
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Affiliations:
- Institute of History and Archeology of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- Ural State University of Economics
- Syktyvkar State University named after Pitirim Sorokina
- Issue: Vol 6, No 1 (2024)
- Pages: 89-94
- Section: SOCIOCULTURAL COMMUNICATIONS IN THE PAST AND PRESENT
- URL: https://journals.eco-vector.com/2658-4654/article/view/630558
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.33693/2658-4654-2024-6-1-89-94
- EDN: https://elibrary.ru/KAJXYH
- ID: 630558
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Abstract
The purpose of the study. This article analyzes the visual content of the Soviet press of the 1920s, in order to reconstruct the normative and deviant models of recreation reflected in it by the urban population of the country.
Conclusions. In visual media stories, the problems of free time and recreation exist in several planes: imperative (approved, ideologically correct strategies and practices of organizing free time are broadcast); normative (examples are given indicating the «sprouts» of a new way of life); critical (deviant practices and «remnants» of the past that need to be eliminated are ridiculed and castigated). In quantitative terms, in the press of the 1920s, the plots of the first and second groups, devoted to cultural recreation of citizens in parks, libraries, theaters, etc., prevailed. The practices of deviant recreation (drunkenness, gambling, etc.), explained by pre-Soviet remnants, the difficulties of the recovery period, and the lack of education of citizens, were more often represented by anonymous plots indicating vice, but not discrediting specific citizens. The press was intended to form cultural leisure practices among citizens rather than reflect the realities of the pastime of citizens in the 1920s.
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About the authors
Marina A. Klinova
Institute of History and Archeology of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Author for correspondence.
Email: klinowa.m@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0725-4161
Scopus Author ID: 521324
Dr. Sci. (Hist.), Associate Professor, Senior Researcher
Russian Federation, YekaterinburgAndrey V. Trofimov
Ural State University of Economics; Syktyvkar State University named after Pitirim Sorokina
Email: 2519612@rambler.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-3419-6051
Scopus Author ID: 148819
Dr. Sci. (Hist.), Professor, Professor of the Department of Creative Management and Humanities, Professor of the Department of Russian History and General History
Russian Federation, Yekaterinburg; SyktyvkarReferences
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