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- Title
Sofía Petrovna, una ciudadana ejemplar (Lydia Chukóvskaia, 1967/1988): el colapso físico, moral y psíquico de una madre durante el Gran Terror estalinista.
- Authors
CALERO ABADÍA, Adolfo
- Abstract
This article analytically reviews the character of Sofia Petrovna in the novel Sofia Petrovna (Lidia, Chukovskaya, 1967/1988) in the context of the police persecutions carried out by the Stalinist regime between 1935 and 1938 known as the Great Terror. This novel, written clandestinely during that period, recounts Sofia's struggle to find out the whereabouts of her son Kolia, arrested for no apparent reason; the sterile determination of this mother from Leningrad in the face of the monstrous Soviet bureaucracy and her own stigmatization as a relative of an enemy of the people, are factors that constitute not only the fictional plot of this work, but also the silenced chronicle of millions of Soviet women. martyred to the point of destitution or death by the judicial and police bodies of the USSR, including the author herself, who lost her husband, the physicist Matvei Bronstein, during the purges.
- Subjects
SAINT Petersburg (Russia); SOVIET Union; POVERTY; MARTYRS; PHYSICISTS; POLICE; PERSECUTION; SONS; BUREAUCRACY; WIDOWS
- Publication
Humanidades: Revista de la Universidad de Montevideo, 2024, Issue 15, p211
- ISSN
1510-5024
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.25185/15.9