КОНСТРУЮВАННЯ ОБРАЗУ "РАДЯНСЬКОГО" ЛЬВОВА 1930-1940-Х РОКІВ У ТОГОЧАСНІЙ УКРАЇНСЬКІЙ ПУБЛІЦИСТИЦІ ТА ХУДОЖНІЙ ЛІТЕРАТУРІ

Pavlo Artymyshyn

Construction of image of the “Soviet” Lviv in the publicism and fiction are analyzed. The purpose of the publication is to study the content and conceptual load of Soviet journalism and fiction, which featured Lviv, and to determine how the image of Lviv as a Soviet city was depicted in these works and what tools were used in this. It is stated that the creation of such images was one of the means of transforming Lviv into a socialist city, along with the creation of appropriate party and state institutions, industrial, architectural objects, organizations of cultural institutions of the Soviet standard. It is ascertained that immediately with the establishment of Soviet power in the city before the latter there was a need to justify its offensive to the territory of Western Ukraine in 1939 to the local population and the world community and subsequently – the re-annexation of these territories into the USSR after the war, as well as to demonstrate the “benefits” of the new “socialist” system over the old “bourgeois”, in order to get more supporters among the population of the newly-acceded territories of Western Ukraine. On the pages of journalism and fiction, in the context of Soviet propaganda, Lviv appeared to be “liberated” from the “bourgeois” past, an area where, instead of the “palace of lords”, as well as the churches of the “discredited” Greek-Catholic clergy, which allegedly collapsed during the Nazi occupation with the Germans, there were factories where the “imprisoned” and “persecuted” workers and labor intellectuals got jobs. Conclusion was drawn that if in 1939–1941, as well as in the first postwar years, the authors focused on “socialist transformations” in the city, contrasting them accordingly with the Polish period, or the time of the Nazi occupation of Lviv.

Lviv, construction of the image of the “Soviet” city, publicism, fiction