იდენტობის პოლიტიკა საბჭოთა საბავშვო მხატვრულ ლიტერატურაში

Research of identity politics is an important topic. Meaning of such research increases when identity politics is controlled by specific ideologies – Soviet ideology in this case. Identity politics of Soviet Union was aimed on forming and shaping a new type of person. To shape the identity of future generation(s), children were the most important group for manipulations. Literature was one of the effective ways of such influence, therefore, the information given to a child was carefully controlled, defined and manipulated by ideology.
Soviet Union encompassed different cultures, as a consequence, the process of forming Soviet identity was interconnected with values of every culture it affected. Therefore, the aim of the research is to depict the process of forming and shaping the identity of a Soviet person by analyzing Soviet Georgian and Soviet Russian fiction literature for children. We used structuralism as a theoretical framework. The study uses qualitative content analysis, which allows to make systematic analysis of the narrative regarding certain topic, theme, and marker. Qualitative content analysis consists of different methods of analyses. In our study we used two of them:
1. Discourse analysis: this method allows to analyze how is social reality depicted and represented in the narrative.
2. comparative analysis: this method is used to analyze same marker in different narratives, also it let us compare and analyze Georgian and Russian sources.
For better representation of the topic, in the research Soviet Russian and Georgian cultures are compared (Centre-periphery context) by analyzing children’s literature. The literature, analyzed in the research covers the time period from 1938 – 1964. It includes: Lazar Lagin “The Old Genie Hottabych” (1938), Arkady Gaidar “Chuk and Gek” (1939)Arkady Gaidar "Timur and his squad" (1940), Valentina Oseeva “Vasyok Trubachev and his Comrades” (1947-1951), Anatoly Rybakov “The Dirk” (1948), Nino Nakashidze “The Diary of a Pupil“ “Korean Heroes”, „On the Moranbong hill” (1954), Anastasia Perfilieva „The sword of D’artagnan“ (1955) Anatoly Rybakov “The Bronze Bird” (1956), Edisher Kifiani “Ten-sheet Notebooks” (1956), Lado Mrelashvili, “The Boys from Ikalto” (1957), Otia Ioseliani “The Adventure of Kakha” (1960), Alexander Chkaidze “When Childhood Ends” (1962), Yuri Tomin “Borka, I and the Invisible” ( 1963), Pavel Kataev “Five Robinsons” (1963) Yuri Tomin “A magician walked through the city” (“Wizard walked through the city”) (1963)
The importance of the study is defined by the essence of identity politics – forming and shaping identity is a crucial part of any society.