Perestroika and a Short History of the Concept of Hope in Soviet Official Discourse
Jakub SADOWSKI
Institute of Eastern Slavonic Studies, Faculty of Philology, Jagiellonian University Jagielloński, ul. Romana Ingardena 3, 30-060 Cracow, Poland , PolandAbstract
The article analyses contexts in which the category of hope appears in the texts of Mikhail Gorbachev’s speeches and writings. His main programmatic texts and political manifestoes, in which the creator of the perestroika policy explained and justified its main assumptions, have been taken into account. Although “hope” does not belong among words with which Gorbachev’s reader is confronted on every page his writings, considered against the background of the Soviet authorities’ discourse, the last leader of the USSR uses this term in an extraordinary, courageous manner, testifying to a qualitative change in the manner of the formulation of political messages in the Soviet Union.
Keywords:
Mikhail Gorbachev, perestroika, Soviet Union, languageSADOWSKI, J. (2020). Pierestrojka i krótka historia pojęcia nadziei w oficjalnym dyskursie radzieckim. Ethos. Quarterly of The John Paul II Institute at the Catholic University of Lublin, 32(4 (128). https://doi.org/10.12887/32-2019-4-128-14
Jakub SADOWSKI
Institute of Eastern Slavonic Studies, Faculty of Philology, Jagiellonian University Jagielloński, ul. Romana Ingardena 3, 30-060 Cracow, Poland
Institute of Eastern Slavonic Studies, Faculty of Philology, Jagiellonian University Jagielloński, ul. Romana Ingardena 3, 30-060 Cracow, Poland
