Behind the Pages of a School Textbook: Events of the Great Patriotic War on the screen and in fiction

UDC 93/94

https://doi.org/10.20339/AM.10-22.101

Marina V. Datsyshina, Cand. Sc. (History), Head specialist at Russian State

Archive of Social Political History (RGASPI), Moscow, e-mail: ditrich@list.ru

The article considers the embodiment of the events of the Great Patriotic War on the pages of novels and in Soviet cinema. It is shown how the activities of participants in real events were recorded in military and political reports, in the memoirs of eyewitnesses, in the diaries of front-line correspondents, how short was the period from the moment of the event to its embodiment in literature and on the movie screen. The author shows the erroneousness of the assessments of the publicists of the 1990s, who denied the events that really took place.

Key words: Great Patriotic War, Soviet cinema, Soviet literature, front-line correspondents, Ivan Nikulin, A. Fadeev, B. Polevoy.