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Pavel Trofimovich Morozov (Russian: Па́вел Трофи́мович Моро́зов; 14 November 1918 – 3 September 1932), better known by the diminutive Pavlik, was a Soviet youth praised by the Soviet press as a martyr. Evidence has emerged since the dissolution of the Soviet Union of the fabrication of the Pavlik Morozov legend, as ...
Pavlik Morozov was a Russian communist youth who was glorified as a martyr by the Soviet regime. The son of poor peasants, Morozov was the leader of the Young Pioneers’ group at his village school and was a fanatical supporter of the Soviet government’s collectivization drive in the countryside.
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Russia marks 100 years since the birth of the most famous Soviet pioneer, Pavlik Morozov. The murdered 13-year-old boy who testified against his father still sharply divides public opinion.
But now, 70 years later and more than a decade after communism fell, a quiet debate is raging over Pavlik Morozov that runs right to the heart of Russia's post-Soviet identity.
In 1932, Pavlik Morozov, a fourteen-year old peasant lad was murdered allegedly in revenge for having denounced his father as a kulak who had hoarded grain. His murder resulted in a show trial in the Morozovs’ village, Gerasimovka, in Sverdlovsk oblast.
Jun 1, 2006 · Kelly seeks to uncover Morozov's “real life” and to trace the creation, transmission, reception, mutation, and eventual eclipse of the Pavlik legend. The result is a book that is part murder mystery and part scholarly analysis of Soviet propaganda in the making that may hold as much appeal for real crime buffs as for historians of the ...
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Pavlik Morozov: Soviet Boy Hero. Anyone who knows even a little about Soviet history is likely to have heard of Pavlik Morozov. He is widely infamous as the boy who betrayed his father to the authorities, and became a model for all Soviet children, meant to inculcate loyalty to the state.
