ABOUT THE COUNTRY, THE FATE, THE LIFE EXPERIENCES AND THE PRESENT DAY CONTEXT: ANDREI GROMYKO (about the political narrative and its reality)
The article continues a series of psychopolitical analysis of Soviet-era politicians' profiles. Previous articles were devoted to Lazar Kaganovich and Nikita Khrushchev, Leonid Brezhnev and Mikhail Gorbachev, etc. The paper derives from the feeling of unrest that the narrative turn in the study of the political linguistics has not happened yet, although the concept level (linguistically, rhetorically, and so on) has obvious potential for the research The article is the first attempt to address within the research paradigm of political linguistics the self-profile of A. Gromyko who was the head of Soviet diplomacy almost 40 years since 1939, which is a record for the USSR and Russia. The purpose of research is to show the strategy of reading and understanding an autobiography of a political leader as a communicative act, which authorizes his self-awareness and self-representation. The article is based on the concept of political narrative which can be assigned to the statement of the biographical and autobiographical character of a politician. The fact is that the political narrative, like any other kind of narrative, has certain content as well as stylistic and linguistic features. The objective of our study is, in particular, the description of the markers of political narrative - the actual language features, the structure of his poetics, the narrator himself and the reliability of his narrative, historical time and modalities.