.A sociological inquiry about alienation, the city and the story (Investigating the phenomenon of alienation in the Moscow metropolitan community in the story of the "Heart of a dog")
Subject Areas : Urban Sociological Studies
1 - Assistant professor, Department of Sociology, Islamic Azad University- Shushtar Branch, shushtar, Iran
Keywords: Alienation, Urban Issues, individual alienation, Urban Alienation, Russian Story, Bulgakov,
Abstract :
In this article, the phenomenon of individual alienation in the Moscow metropolitan area is studied in Mikhail Bulgakov's long story "The Dog". The long story "Heart of a Dog" echoes Bulgakov's frustration with the Russian Revolution of 1917 AD. The question in this article concerns the way the phenomenon of urban alienation in the Soviet Union emerged as a model in Soviet fiction, and how Bulgakov attempted to shape, describe, and solve this problem. This research lies in the interpretive paradigm and utilized the qualitative method and the story under study is selected by the “famous sample” sampling technique. In analyzing this story from a sociological point of view, alienation theories of Marx, Max Weber and Simmel were also utilized. The results showed that Bolgakov, by analyzing the story in the form of Fabel and Joke succeeded in the application of Marxian ideaology of Leninist-Stalinist for depicting human urban proletarians in the first years of the October Revolution and the analysis of its negative consequences. Apart from this result, the author has also pursued and stated additional goals such as his explicit opposition to the Russian October Revolution.
