Analysis of This is Moscow Speaking
The Fear of Conformity
From Stalin’s Cult of Personality to Khrushchev’s period of De-Stalinization, the nation of the Soviet Union was in endless disarray of what to regard as true in the sense of a socialist direction. The short story, This is Moscow Speaking, written by Yuli Daniel (Nikolai Arzhak) represents the ideology that the citizens of the USSR were constantly living in fear of the alternations of their nation’s political policies. Even more, the novella gives an explanation for the people’s desire to conform to the principles around them.
This is Moscow Speaking asks the crucial question of its time: will there ever be stability? Because this short story was written in 1962, before the Stagnation Period, there was no real hope for consistency: This meant that the soviet people had to continuously adapt to policies that the government set forth. Khrushchev, who came to power in 1953, gave a speech to the Twentieth Party Congress of the Communist Party that criticized the Stalin’s Cult of Personality.
Khrushchev, wanting to reverse the affects that Stalin had branded on masses of the Soviet citizens, released millions of political prisoners from the Gulag labor camps. His thaw also had seemed to open up new economic and social reforms by creating a cultural expansion and people begin to appreciate Khrushchev’s leadership. It wasn’t until the American National Exhibition in Moscow (1959) that Khrushchev and citizens of Russia discovered how far they were behind the United States. Yuli Daniel tries to explain, through this story, that as stable as the Soviet Regime seems to be, there is always an uncertainty, but people continue to conform.
Daniel’s portrayal of National Murder Day represents how the government could easily manipulate almost every single citizen through a simple decree. The nation was not yet at liberty to question authority figures because of the power that the Soviet Union possessed. Due to the past results of resistance against
From Stalin’s Cult of Personality to Khrushchev’s period of De-Stalinization, the nation of the Soviet Union was in endless disarray of what to regard as true in the sense of a socialist direction. The short story, This is Moscow Speaking, written by Yuli Daniel (Nikolai Arzhak) represents the ideology that the citizens of the USSR were constantly living in fear of the alternations of their nation’s political policies. Even more, the novella gives an explanation for the people’s desire to conform to the principles around them.
This is Moscow Speaking asks the crucial question of its time: will there ever be stability? Because this short story was written in 1962, before the Stagnation Period, there was no real hope for consistency: This meant that the soviet people had to continuously adapt to policies that the government set forth. Khrushchev, who came to power in 1953, gave a speech to the Twentieth Party Congress of the Communist Party that criticized the Stalin’s Cult of Personality.
Khrushchev, wanting to reverse the affects that Stalin had branded on masses of the Soviet citizens, released millions of political prisoners from the Gulag labor camps. His thaw also had seemed to open up new economic and social reforms by creating a cultural expansion and people begin to appreciate Khrushchev’s leadership. It wasn’t until the American National Exhibition in Moscow (1959) that Khrushchev and citizens of Russia discovered how far they were behind the United States. Yuli Daniel tries to explain, through this story, that as stable as the Soviet Regime seems to be, there is always an uncertainty, but people continue to conform.
Daniel’s portrayal of National Murder Day represents how the government could easily manipulate almost every single citizen through a simple decree. The nation was not yet at liberty to question authority figures because of the power that the Soviet Union possessed. Due to the past results of resistance against