publitsistika v. zhurnalistika

[Alina Israeli]

>So Russian publitsistika is US PR. (Also known as public relations.)

No, it isn't. Publitsistika is akin to "opinion pieces", except probably of
longer nature. So the most obvious examples would be "publitsistika
Belinskogo i Gercena" and there was nothing PR about them. They were
against serfdom, among other things, and could not publish their ideas
inside Russia. (They distributed their writings in Russia, but unlike the
revolutionaries after them, their purpose was the message, not the
revolutionary movement.)

We would not say "publitsistika Saxarova" because what he wrote was of
different nature or maybe because he was not a professonal writer, but
"publitsistika Solzhenitsyna" is fine. It would probably not include his
open letters but rather his pieces on how to reform the Soviet Union, how
to carve out a Russian speaking country out and get the church at its helm.
That's publitsistika. The collection "iz-pod glyb" is a typical example of
publitsistika.

Another good examples would be "publitsistika Erengurga". Many writers
wrote their "opinion pieces" which would be included in collective
writings. So there are entire volumes entitled "publitsistika" as opposed
to fiction and letters. But of course not everyone wrote it.

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 Alina Israeli
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