Constructing of the "I-image" of the Students of Higher Educational Institutions of Ukraine in the Letters "To the Authorities": Components and Specific Features (1920s–1930s)

Abstract

The article analyses the letters of the students of Ukrainian higher educational establishments "to the authorities", determines the specific features of the genre, and describes the personalities of the addressees by defining their main identifying components. These letters represent peculiar identification characteristics as the students clearly describe their origin, family ties, determine their present and future roles in the society, and provide self-esteem. These characteristics are important for analyzing the process of the proletarian identity forming. The analysis of the letters proves that the mechanism of the proletarian identity forming was conscious among the students of the 1920s and 1930s; mainly it was acquired under the influence of external factors by using sometimes even ready-made standards.