Preface: A Dangerous Subject
Cast of Characters
1.A Scripted Trial
2.How a Son Informs on His Father
3.Morozov's Other Feats on Paper and in Real Life
4.Was He Ever a Pioneer?
5.The Family as a Terrorist Organization
6.Posthumous Rehabilitation of the Innocent
7.Who was the Real Murderer?
8.The Myth: An Example of the New Man
9.Authors and Victims of Heroization
10.Hail to the Informers!
11.How Many Pavliks Were There?
12.Pavlik Morozov and Comrade Stalin
13.Pilgrimage to Gerasimovka
14.To Inform, or Not to Inform?
Epilogue: What Has Happened to Informer 001 Now that the Soviet
Union Has Collapsed
Russian Periodicals Mentioned in the Book
Bibliography
Index
Yuri Druzhnikov
-This profound work of scholarly investigation, meticulously
researched and thoroughly documented, is an unprecedented look into
the creation (in fact, 'fabrication' is a more appropriate word) of
one of the most hideous myths of Soviet propaganda . . . Through a
series of twists of the truth and deliberate misrepresentations,
the true story of a troubled boy was made into a myth about a young
martyr who willingly sacrificed his life . . . -for the 'bright
future of mankind.' This myth helped the Communists corrupt the
souls of seven generations of Soviet people and institutionalize
political denunciation.- --Emil A. Draitser, Hunter College
-The story of Pavlik Morozov was one of the enduring myths of the
Soviet Union... [A] very striking story and should be essential
reading for any student of the Soviet phenomenon.- --Richard Ware,
Slavonica -[A]uthor Yuri Druzhnikov unravels for an
English-speaking audience the perplexing and often convoluted tale
of Pavlik Morozov, the Soviet Union's legendary child-informer...
As a uniquely Soviet version of the murder-mystery, Druzhnikov's
book appeals to a wide and popular readership that takes pleasure
in filling in the gaps the author uncovers in the historical
record. Druzhnikov's meticulous and passionate detective work makes
Informer 001 an engaging and exciting read.- --Julie A. Cassiday,
Slavic and East European Journal -This extraordinary book is much
more than simply an exposure of the scanty and garbled factual
foundation of the papier-mache Soviet myth of Pavlik Morozov... It
reveals the whole clumsy and relentless machinery of the Soviet
myth-making, the centrality of the, alas, one-sided struggle
between loyalty to traditional human values on the one hand and to
the bogus future vouchsafed by a powerful regime on the other. It
shows as well how even people of genuine talent and considerable
personal courage--not only Tikbonov and Gorky, but Babel and
Eisenstein and Shklovsky--allowed themselves to be caught up in
the'machinery, to their ultimate sorrow. The official tale of
Pavlik Morozov in its many, often contradictory versions, for,
decades brought tears to the eyes of millions of Young Pioneers,
erected monuments in thousands of towns and villages, created a
children's, and also an adult publishing industry, and had as its
foundation little more than a handful of sordid lies. The
difficulty and complexity of Druzhnikov's research is matched by
the artful simplicity of his narrative unraveling.- --Sidney Monas,
professor emeritus, Department of Slavic Languages, University of
Texas at Austin -Druzhnikov is a brilliant storyteller... He has
unraveled a mystery, and like an experienced detective, he leads us
from event to event, from witness to witness, never stretching his
evidence or passing off a hypothesis as a final solution...The
story Druzhnikov has told is a parable and exemplum...required
reading for all who study Soviet history, the methods of mass
propaganda, and the growth of modem myths.- -- Anatoly Liberman,
professor of Russian, University of Minnesota -Yuri Druzhnikov's
landmark study debunks the Soviet myth of Pavlik Morozov once and
for all. This well-researched study will be required reading for
anyone interested in the cultural construction of the Soviet
Union.- --Daniel Rancour-Laferriere, professor of Russian,
University of California, Davis
"This profound work of scholarly investigation, meticulously
researched and thoroughly documented, is an unprecedented look into
the creation (in fact, 'fabrication' is a more appropriate word) of
one of the most hideous myths of Soviet propaganda . . . Through a
series of twists of the truth and deliberate misrepresentations,
the true story of a troubled boy was made into a myth about a young
martyr who willingly sacrificed his life . . . "for the 'bright
future of mankind.' This myth helped the Communists corrupt the
souls of seven generations of Soviet people and institutionalize
political denunciation." --Emil A. Draitser, Hunter College
"The story of Pavlik Morozov was one of the enduring myths of the
Soviet Union... [A] very striking story and should be essential
reading for any student of the Soviet phenomenon." --Richard Ware,
Slavonica "[A]uthor Yuri Druzhnikov unravels for an
English-speaking audience the perplexing and often convoluted tale
of Pavlik Morozov, the Soviet Union's legendary child-informer...
As a uniquely Soviet version of the murder-mystery, Druzhnikov's
book appeals to a wide and popular readership that takes pleasure
in filling in the gaps the author uncovers in the historical
record. Druzhnikov's meticulous and passionate detective work makes
Informer 001 an engaging and exciting read." --Julie A. Cassiday,
Slavic and East European Journal "This extraordinary book is much
more than simply an exposure of the scanty and garbled factual
foundation of the papier-mache Soviet myth of Pavlik Morozov... It
reveals the whole clumsy and relentless machinery of the Soviet
myth-making, the centrality of the, alas, one-sided struggle
between loyalty to traditional human values on the one hand and to
the bogus future vouchsafed by a powerful regime on the other. It
shows as well how even people of genuine talent and considerable
personal courage--not only Tikbonov and Gorky, but Babel and
Eisenstein and Shklovsky--allowed themselves to be caught up in
the'machinery, to their ultimate sorrow. The official tale of
Pavlik Morozov in its many, often contradictory versions, for,
decades brought tears to the eyes of millions of Young Pioneers,
erected monuments in thousands of towns and villages, created a
children's, and also an adult publishing industry, and had as its
foundation little more than a handful of sordid lies. The
difficulty and complexity of Druzhnikov's research is matched by
the artful simplicity of his narrative unraveling." --Sidney Monas,
professor emeritus, Department of Slavic Languages, University of
Texas at Austin "Druzhnikov is a brilliant storyteller... He has
unraveled a mystery, and like an experienced detective, he leads us
from event to event, from witness to witness, never stretching his
evidence or passing off a hypothesis as a final solution...The
story Druzhnikov has told is a parable and exemplum...required
reading for all who study Soviet history, the methods of mass
propaganda, and the growth of modem myths." -- Anatoly Liberman,
professor of Russian, University of Minnesota "Yuri Druzhnikov's
landmark study debunks the Soviet myth of Pavlik Morozov once and
for all. This well-researched study will be required reading for
anyone interested in the cultural construction of the Soviet
Union." --Daniel Rancour-Laferriere, professor of Russian,
University of California, Davis
"This profound work of scholarly investigation, meticulously
researched and thoroughly documented, is an unprecedented look into
the creation (in fact, 'fabrication' is a more appropriate word) of
one of the most hideous myths of Soviet propaganda . . . Through a
series of twists of the truth and deliberate misrepresentations,
the true story of a troubled boy was made into a myth about a young
martyr who willingly sacrificed his life . . . "for the 'bright
future of mankind.' This myth helped the Communists corrupt the
souls of seven generations of Soviet people and institutionalize
political denunciation." --Emil A. Draitser, Hunter College
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