The Russian Mindset as Viewed through the Prism of the Logical Evaluation of true vs. untrue (Based on Russian Memoirs and Confessional Prose of the Late Twentieth and Early Twenty-frst Centuries)

Abstract

The article looks at the content and means of expressing logical evaluations true vs. untrue in confessional memoirs of the Russian intelligentsia, seeking to define the genre status of these evaluations in modern confessional memoirs in general and see their role and function in the Russian mindset. The author describes the conceptual nature of truth- istina and truth- pravda evaluations, typical for the Russian mentality, concludes that the opposition true vs. untrue is irrelevant for the modern confessional genre, and looks at pragmatic functions of these evaluations in the Russian culture.