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Westernism

Panaev I.I.

Phraseologism: Westernism.

Meaning: About the Russian tradition, the followers of which blindly intend to adopt the norms, customs, social innovations of Western civilization, which in themselves (in the West) are good, but grafted on Russian soil, often turn into their opposite and exacerbate the flaws of Russian life, copying the external aspects of Western civilization .

Origin: The term is first encountered in Russian culture in the 40s. XIX century., In particular, in the "Memoirs" of Ivan Ivanovich Panaev (vol. II, 5). The term began to be used frequently after K. S. Aksakov’s break with V. G. Belinsky in 1840. Two groups of writers were formed - Slavophiles (see Slavophilism), who began to talk about the “special path of Russia” (I. S. Aksakov, I. V. Kireevsky, Yu.F. Belinsky, K. D. Kavelin, N. Kh. Ketcher and others. The latter insisted on the need for Russia to follow the path of Western civilization, especially in the field of social organization, civil life, and culture. Westerners were characterized by a special interest in the achievements of the latest Western European thought (philosophy of Hegel, Feuerbach, etc.). Subsequently, two main currents of Russian social thought, characteristic of the XNUMXth century, would develop from "Westernism" - the liberal-democratic and the communist.

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The detachment did not notice the loss of a fighter.

Meaning:

About the indifferent (disdainful) attitude of friends in a common cause to the fate, the life of one of their comrades.

Origin:

From the poem "Grenada" (1926, first published: Komsomolskaya Pravda. 1926. August 29) by the Soviet poet Mikhail Arkadyevich Svetlov (1903-1964): "... The detachment did not notice // The loss of a soldier, // And "Yablochko" -song // Sang to the end. // Only quietly across the sky // Slipped later // On the velvet of sunset // A teardrop of rain..." The poem, which in the USSR became a symbol of revolutionary romance and the embodiment of the pathos of the Civil War, was composed by Svetlov, as he later told himself, almost by accident. Once he was walking along Tverskaya Street past the Are cinema (now the Stanislavsky Theater is located in this building) and noticed a building in the back of his courtyard, on which there was a sign "Grenada Hotel". At first, this Spanish romance in the center of Moscow amused the poet, and he decided to compose a comic serenade in which this word - "Grenada" - would sound like a refrain. But the march-like, courageous sound of this romantic refrain, as it were, forced Svetlov to write a new song in which love romance gave way to revolutionary. In another version of the song these words are spoken by a young Ukrainian Red Army soldier dreaming of a world revolution: “I left my hut, // I went to fight, // To give the land in Grenada // To the peasants. // Farewell, dear ones, // Farewell, family, // Grenada, Grenada, // My Grenada!"

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