«А НЕНАВИДЕТЬ У МЕНЯ ЕСТЬ КОГО»: ЗЛОСТЬ, ГНЕВ И ИХ (НЕ)ВЫРАЖЕНИЕ В МОСКОВСКОЙ УНИВЕРСИТЕТСКОЙ СРЕДЕ 30–40-Х ГОДОВ ХХ ВЕКА

Abstract

The article draws on memoirs, questionnaires, letters and diaries of students of the Faculty of History at Lomonosov Moscow State University in the second half of the 1930s and the first half of the 1940s to examine the practices of expressing anger, rage and similar emotions in this milieu. Representations of such feelings are rare in the ego-documents examined, but still allow us to draw a tentative conclusion about the existence of norms that provided in hierarchical relations for greater freedom to express these feelings ‘top down’ or ‘horizontally’ than ‘bottom-up’. When an expression of anger or rage was felt by the authors to be undesirable, they resorted to three ways of legitimizing it: providing a justification, placing oneself in a morally stronger and more empowered position, or redirecting one’s anger to a legitimate object.