The personal dimension of the war in the Chronicles by Stanislav Aseyev

Abstract

Introduction. S. Aseyev’s journalism is only fragmentarily present in the modern communication space. In the context of the hybrid war, the study and propaganda of the experience of a professional journalist who wrote from Donetsk is of particular relevance. The purpose of this article is to find out the peculiarities of the reception and presentation of the problems of today’s Donbass on the material of reports, essays, blogs, documentary evidence collected in the book «In isolation».

The methology. Observation, analysis and generalization. Given that journalism is on the verge of journalism and literature, a methodology that combines literary and social communication approaches seems appropriate. The analysis of a journalistic work as a multi-level recipient-oriented structure requires the application of a methodology of receptive poetics. Biographical elements are required to identify sources of journalism. Results. All journalism by Aseyev has a practical-activity, practical-applied sense. The author seeks to orient himself and give clear guidelines to his country to defend national, ethnic, material, intellectual interests in the extremely difficult situation of hybrid war. It not only warns, but also outlines the specific steps that need to be taken to stabilize and change the situation. He succeeded in establishing causality between events and the response to them by power structures, to justify a painful awareness of the very fact of the war, to characterize events through the optics of the philosophy and psychology of the «leftover». The occupation of the occupied Donetsk was revealed through the opposition of «own/foreign», «war/peace», «we/ they», «life/death». Conclusions. The novelty of the work is due to the lack of research by S. Aseyev’s journalism and its importance in the modern communication space. The results and conclusions of the article are important for forming a holistic view of the role and importance of journalistic genres in the context of the globalization challenges of the present.