"Męstwo" Brunona Jasieńskiego. Polityka płciowa w ZSRR a proza socrealistyczna

This article is devoted to the strategies of creations of masculinity in the novel Bravery (in Polish: Męstwo) written by Brunon Jasieński. What is analysed are the ways of presenting patriarchy in post-revolutionary social relations, gender relations, and strategies of creations gender identity and social consequences of the revolutionary project of emancipation, which was abandoned in the USSR in the early 1930s. An important assumption of the study is also an attempt to establish the relation of this short prose to dominant fiction preserved by the poetics of socialist realism and the ways in which it discusses “classic” texts dealing with the emancipation of women (Bebel, Engels, Kołłontaj). In my analysis I use categories developed by Raewyn Connell, Herbert Sussmann, and Kaja Silverman (hegemonic masculinity, manliness as performance, and dominant fiction respectively)