I. D. SURGUCHEV PUBLICISM DURING THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION OF 1905 (1905-1906)

Abstract

By the examples of publications in Stavropol Social-Political newspaper «Severnii Kavkaz», the article specifies genre-theme specifics of publications of a famous Russian writer and playwright I. D. Sur-guchev in the period of pre-revolutionaty events in Russia of 1905-1906. Based on analysis of published cycles «Dela» (from 20 texts) and «Pisma iz Peterburga» an assumption is made that author was for reformation of government establishment of Russia, welcomed the inception of civic self-consciousness, including provinces, highly graded the role of culture in saving the nation, outlined the achievement of honest periodicals in serving the society. The reference to the form of a cycle allowed Surguchev to include singular negative instance of social practices in broader context, giving a multi-facet view and showing speciic tendencies of societal-political life of Russia. It is defined that the main parts of Surguchev's publicistic style were the construction of mediareality with the help of semantic oppositions and using contrasts, combination of factological accuracy and generalizations, the use of different expressive means and intertextuality. Research of Surguchev's texts, published in «Severnii Kavkaz» newspaper, published by Feniks in 1905-1906, showed the domination in this block of material of genres of pamphlet and feuilleton, which was logical, since the publicist saw exposing the old regime and its defenders as his main objective, and the main target of his critique was the government.