The International Literature magazine as an expression of the image of the West in the eyes of the USSR

the article is devoted to the study of the image of Western countries created on the pages of the famous Soviet magazine "International Literature magazine", published in the USSR from 1933 to 1943 under this name, and from 1955 to 1991 under the name "Foreign Literature". The publication of the magazine continues today, but we are interested in the Soviet period of its existence. The paper analyzes the key topics discussed in the journal, which reveal the image of Western society. The main ones are: theme the morality of marriage and family relations in capitalist society, the topic of loneliness and selfishness of a "Western" person, as well as a discussion of the capitalist system itself, its general impact on its inhabitants. The purpose of the work is to describe the image of bourgeois society that has developed on the pages of the International Literature magazine. In the course of writing the work, both general scientific methods (analysis, synthesis, systematization) and special historical methods such as diachronic, historical and comparative were used. In conclusion of the article The author makes a conclusion about the changing image of Western countries on the pages of the magazine. A connection is made between the "emancipation" of Soviet society in the last years of the USSR and the change in the image of the West in the magazine's publications.

International Literature magazine, image of the West, Soviet society, bourgeois society, capitalism