AGITATION AND PROPAGANDA CONFRONTATION BETWEEN “REDS” AND “WHITES” IN THE PERM PERIODICALS DURING THE CIVIL WAR: A TYPOLOGY OF DISCOURSES

Abstract

The paper presents an analysis of the agitation and propaganda discourses on the materials of newspapers published in the Perm province in confrontation between the “reds” and “whites” during the years of the Civil War. The authors analyze the general theoretical and applied problems arising in the application of the methods of the analysis of discourses and discourse practices at the interdisciplinary level, and consider the categorical apparatus, characteristics, classification, and typology of discourses proposed in various studies. The ideas of Michel Foucault and other representatives of the French school, the critical discourse research by Teun Van Dyck and other foreign schools of the discourse studies, and the ideas of Russian researchers E. Kozhevnikov, E. Pereverzev, V. I. Karasik, T.I. Krasnova, etc., are analyzed in the paper. The authors draw attention to the theoretical provisions that characterize the political discourse in the agitation and propaganda spheres, its classifications, and types. They propose a typology of discourses in the agitation and propaganda confrontation between “reds” and “whites” during the Civil War, based on the criterion of thematic distribution of newspaper publications in the Perm provincial newspapers. There are four main types of discourses: in political, military, economic and social areas. The paper presents the examples and descriptions of discourse structures of each type and the results of their comparative analysis. The authors formulate the thesis about the role and significance of the types of discourses for the study of propaganda discourses and discursive practices of “reds” and “whites” in periodicals and the results of information confrontation between the parties during the Civil War in Russia.