Ob-Ugric Institute of Applied Researches and Development, Khanty-Mansiysk, Russian Federation, [email protected]
ABSTRACT
Introduction: the article is devoted to the study of the Kazym rebellion in the creative work of I. S. Panov. This rebellion and the memory about it have a special place in the ethnic history and modern self-identification of the Ob Ugrians. In the last decade, the historiography of the rebellion, as well as the history of the Soviet North as a whole, has shown interest to the problem of their reflection in the public consciousness of the pre-war era, to the problem of images associated with the process of Sovietization, support for Soviet transformations and resistance to them. In line with this interest is this study of the ideas of the Soviet writer of the “second plan” I. S. Panov, whose creative and personal fate was largely determined by his work on the northern theme and the choice of a civil position in relation to the Soviet transformations and to the Kazym rebellion.
Objective: to identify the author’s vision of the causes of the Kazym rebellion in the context of his ideas about Soviet transformations in the North of the pre-war era.

Research material: works by I. S. Panov (the stories “The War on Kazym. Notes of the Teacher” and “In the Far North”,the novel “The Urman”, short stories), and information of the funds of the United Museum of Writers of the Urals.

Results and novelty of the research: using the example of the creative work of I. S. Panov, a supporter of Soviet modernization, the attitude of the writing community to the transformations in the Ob North in the 1930s is presented, combining support for socialist transformations with criticism of “individual disadvantages.” I. S. Panov, at the same time, the supporter of official policy and, in fact, its victim, in his works he combined the exaltation of innovations with silence about the facts of repression. The reasons for resistance to Soviet transformations were reduced to the evil will of enemies and the private mistakes of enthusiasts. Such an interpretation could not withstand a collision with reality, caused a creative crisis and the writer’s refusal to continue writing and literary activity. The heroic death in the war became a kind of atonement for lies in the name of the revolutionary socialist ideals of the reconstruction of the North. Panov’s tragic fate prompts us to turn to the study of the ideological attitudes typical of the pre-war period of Soviet writers who wrote about the North, whose voices made up a noticeable spectrum of the Soviet northern discourse as a whole. The article represents the first experience of understanding the causes of the Kazym tragedy in the works of I. S. Рanov.
Key words: aborigines, Soviet modernization, Northern discourse and its official images, prerequisites of the Kazym Rebellion in the views of I. S. Panov
For citation: I. S. Panov about the prereguisites of the Kazym Rebellion // Vestnik ugrovedenia = Bulletin of Ugric Studies. 2024; 14 (1/56): 174–181.