Constructing the image of an emancipated woman in the framework of the policy of struggle for a new way of life in the 1920s (Malashkin, Gumilevsky, Romanov). Article 1

The article discusses the images of Komsomol members in the works of Sergei Malashkin “The Moon on the Right Side”, Lev Gumilevsky “Dog Lane”, Panteleimon Romanov “Without Bird Cherry”. The author offers a new look at the situation of these writers in the framework of the so-called. discussions about the “sexual issue” of the 1920s (a set of speeches by prominent Soviet party leaders, writers, scientists, lawyers on the problems of sexuality, marriage among young people) as part of a cultural policy and the struggle for a new way of life. It is noteworthy that in the works of the aforementioned authors the leading role is given to the Komsomol members. Others make her an active participant in the struggle for her own destiny, debunk the myth of a woman’s passivity within the framework of a patriarchal culture, follow modernist discoveries, depicting a demonic woman who placed not love in the first place, that classical sphere in which she can fully open up, but passion, which, in turn, leads to other problems (“Dog Lane”, “Moon on the Right Side”). Panteleimon Romanov refers to the traditional motives of Russian literature related to the image of a woman. The texts of Gumilevsky and Malashkin are devoted to the sex curse. In the course of the study, the author concludes that the main difference between the two texts is that Gumilevsky refuses to consider sex drive a curse. In his coordinate system, this is the basis of life, which for some reason the Komsomol members have christened the vicious. Not without reason weighed down by a “sex curse” Burov and Khorokhorin declare Freud’s system erroneous, and Pavlov’s reflexology necessary, because thanks to it one can control reflexes. The ethereal nature of such judgments showed the clash of heroes with Vera Volkova.