The subject of the article is the first book by O. Matthews Stalin’s Children. Three Generations of Love and War (2008),
which is very important for understanding of the worldview of the writer. Being half-Welsh, half-Russian, he presented the history of his family in the book and his ambivalent, but mostly negative version of Soviet and post-Soviet Russia (from 1930s up to 1990s). The book was a success in Great Britain and abroad – it was translated into 28 languages.
Keywords
contemporary British literature; imagology; image of Soviet Russia; image of post-Soviet Russia.
