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((Short description|Soviet murder victim (1918–1932)))
((Use dmy dates|date=January 2021))
((More citations needed|date=January 2013))
((expand Russian|date=March 2022|topic=bio))
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((Infobox person
| name                      = Pavlik Morozov
| honorific_prefix          = 
| honorific_suffix          = 
| image                     = Pavel Morozov.jpg
| alt                       = 
| caption                   = Soviet portrait supposedly of Pavlik Morozov, wearing the [[Young Pioneer Organization of the Soviet Union|Young Pioneers]] [[red scarf]] 
| birth_name                = Pavel Trofimovich Morozov
| birth_date                = ((birth date|df=yes|1918|11|14))
| birth_place               = [[Gerasimovka, Sverdlovsk Oblast|Gerasimovka]], [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic|Russian SFSR]]
| death_date                = ((death date and age|df=yes|1932|09|03|1918|11|14))
| death_place               = Gerasimovka, [[Ural Oblast (1923–1934)|Ural Oblast]], [[Soviet Union]]
| body_discovered           = 
| death_cause               = Knife wounds
| other_names               = 
| known_for                 = Supposedly turning his father in to Soviet officials for corruption
| parents                   = Trofim Sergeyevich Morozov (presumed shot in 1932); Tatyana Semyonovna Morozova (''née'' Baidakova; died in 1983)
| relations                 = Brothers: Fyodor Morozov (killed along with Pavel at eight years old), Alexei Morozov (killed in World War II), Roman Morozov
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| signature                 = 
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| website                   = 
))

'''Pavel Trofimovich Morozov''' (((lang-ru|link=no|Па́вел Трофи́мович Моро́зов)); 14 November 1918&nbsp;– 3 September 1932), better known by the [[diminutive]] '''Pavlik''', was a [[Soviet Union|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 well as what Soviet officials thought of him. His story, dated to 1932, is that of a 13-year-old boy who denounced his father to the authorities and was in turn killed by his family. His story was a subject of reading, songs, plays, a symphonic poem, a full-length [[opera]], and six biographies. His politicized and mythologized story was used to encourage [[Eastern Bloc|Soviet Bloc]] children to also inform on their parents.<ref name="Figes">[[Orlando Figes]] ''The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia'', 2007, ((ISBN|0805074619)), pages 122–126.</ref>

==Popular story==
[[File:Rus Stamp PMorozov-1950-40.jpg|thumb|Morozov honoured on a 1950 Soviet postage stamp]]
The most popular account of the story is as follows: born to poor [[peasant]]s in [[Gerasimovka, Sverdlovsk Oblast|Gerasimovka]], a small village ((convert|350|km|mi)) north-east of [[Yekaterinburg]] (then known as Sverdlovsk), Morozov was a dedicated [[communism|communist]] who led the [[Young Pioneer Organization of the Soviet Union|Young Pioneers]] at his school and supported [[Collectivisation in the USSR|Stalin's collectivization of farms]].

In 1932, at the age of 13, Morozov reported his father to the political police ([[State Political Directorate|GPU]]). Supposedly, Morozov's father, Trofim, the chairman of the Gerasimovka Village [[Soviet (council)|Soviet]], had been "forging documents and selling them to the bandits and enemies of the Soviet State" (as the sentence read). Trofim Morozov was sentenced to ten years in a [[Gulag|labour camp]], where his sentence was changed to death, which was fulfilled.<ref name="Figes"/> However, Pavlik's family did not take kindly to his reporting his father and on 3 September of that year, his uncle, grandfather, grandmother, and a cousin murdered him, along with his younger brother. All of them except the uncle were rounded up by the GPU and sentenced to "the highest measure of social defense" – execution by a [[firing squad]].

Thousands of [[telegram]]s from all over the Soviet Union urged the judge to show no mercy for Pavlik's killers. The Soviet government declared Pavlik Morozov a glorious martyr who had been murdered by [[reactionary|reactionaries]]. Statues of him were built, and numerous schools and youth groups were named in his honour. An [[opera]] and numerous songs were written about him. The Gerasimovka school that Morozov attended, became a [[shrine]], and children from all over the Soviet Union went on school excursions to visit it.

During the investigation of Trofim Morozov's case, his wife Tatyana Morozova stated that Trofim used to beat her and also brought home valuables received as payment for selling forged documents. According to this testimony, Pavlik merely confirmed evidence given by his mother.

==Veracity and later research==
Evidence has emerged since the [[dissolution of the Soviet Union]] of the fabrication of the Pavlik Morozov legend, as well as what Soviet officials thought of him. [[Maxim Gorky]] spoke to the Communist youth organization in 1933 of "the heroic deed of Pioneer Pavlik Morozov, the boy who understood that a person who is a relative by blood may well be an enemy of the spirit, and that such a person is not to be spared". Gorky was an ally and favourite of Stalin's, but this particular initiative does not seem to have been to Stalin's taste, at least according to rumour: "What a little swine, denouncing his own father," is one remark attributed to Stalin.<ref>((cite journal |url=https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v27/n21/sheila-fitzpatrick/a-little-swine |title=A Little Swine: On Snitching |last=Fitzpatrick |first=Sheila |date=11 March 2005 |journal=London Review of Books |volume=27 |issue=21 |publisher=LondonReviewOfBooks |access-date=1 January 2021))</ref>

In the mid-1980s, [[Yuri Ilyich Druzhnikov|Yuri Druzhnikov]], a dissident writer expelled from the Soviet Writers' Union, performed an investigation, met with surviving eyewitnesses, and wrote a documentary exposé about Pavlik. Originally circulated through the ''[[samizdat]]'', it was published in Russian in the UK in 1988 and soon thereafter translated into several languages. The first English translation appeared in 1996 under the title ''Informer 001: The Myth of Pavlik Morozov''. Druzhnikov disputes every aspect of the Soviet propaganda version of Pavlik's life. For example, different sources in Soviet literature list different ages for Pavlik at death and show photographs of different boys. Pavlik was not a Pioneer when he was killed. According to the Soviet version, Pavlik's grandfather was responsible for his murder; according to Druzhnikov, the grandfather was heartbroken about the death of Pavlik, organized a search when the boy went missing, and maintained his innocence during the trial. While not saying it outright, Druzhnikov hints that Pavlik was killed by a [[Gosudarstvennoye Politicheskoye Upravlenie|GPU]] officer, whom Druzhnikov met while doing his research.

[[File:PavlikMor.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Pavlik Morozov (second row, in the middle): this is the only surviving photograph known of him]]
In her 2005 book ''Comrade Pavlik: The Rise and Fall of a Soviet Boy Hero'', [[Catriona Kelly]] agrees with Druzhnikov that the official version of the account is almost wholly fictional. Kelly had access to the official archives of the case. She determined the evidence is sketchy, based mostly on second-hand reports by alleged witnesses, and that Pavlik did not inform on his parents but was murdered after a mundane squabble. Kelly also shows how the official version's emphasis shifted to suit the changing times and [[propaganda]] lines. In some accounts, Pavlik's father's crime was not forging the documents, but hoarding grain; in others, he was denounced not to the secret police, but to a schoolteacher. In some accounts, the method of Pavlik's death was decapitation by saw. The one surviving photograph of him shows a [[Nutrition|malnourished]] child who bears almost no resemblance to the statues and images in children's books. It has also been said that he was nearly [[illiterate]] and was coerced to inform on his father by his mother; the father deserted the family. She states that Druzhnikov's theory that Pavlik was killed by the GPU is unlikely. 

According to the most recent research, Gerasimovka was described in the Soviet press as a "[[kulak]] nest" because its villagers refused to join the [[kolkhoz]], a state-controlled [[collective farm]] during the [[Collectivization in the USSR|collectivization]]. Pavlik informed on neighbours when they did something wrong, including his father, who left the family for another woman.<ref name="Figes"/> Pavlik was not a Pioneer, although he wanted to be one. Kelly believes there is no evidence that the family was involved in the murder of the boy, and that it probably was the work of some teenagers with whom Pavlik had a squabble over a gun.<ref name="Figes"/>

==In film==
Morozov's story was the basis of ''[[Bezhin Meadow]]'', an unreleased film from 1937 that was directed by [[Sergei Eisenstein]], as well as the 2015 Latvian film [[Dawn (2015 film)|''Dawn'']].

==See also==
* [[Joseph Bara]]
* [[Lei Feng]]
* [[Herbert Norkus]]

==References==
((Reflist))
*((cite news| url= http://economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=4032697 |title= Death in Taiga: Soviet Childhood| newspaper= [[The Economist]]| date= 2 June 2005| url-access= subscription | accessdate= 18 June 2005))
*[[Yuri Ilyich Druzhnikov|Yuri Druzhnikov]], ''Informer 001: The Myth of Pavlik Morozov'', Transaction Publishers, 1996 ([http://lib.ru/PROZA/DRUZHNIKOV/morozow.txt full text online in Russian])
*[[Catriona Kelly]], ''Comrade Pavlik: The Rise and Fall of a Soviet Boy Hero'', Granta Books, 2005

==External links==
* ((cite web| url= http://soviethistory.msu.edu/1934-2/pavlik-morozov/ |title= Pavlik Morozov| website= Seventeen Moments in Soviet History| via= soviethistory.msu.edu| publisher= Michigan State University | date= 18 June 2015| access-date= )) Information about Soviet children-informers
*((cite web |url=http://english.pravda.ru/main/18/90/363/10951_morozov.html |title=Soviet Hero Pavlik Morozov Still Mysterious |date=23 September 2003 |last=Sloboda |first=Yamskaya |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20050410065112/http://english.pravda.ru/main/18/90/363/10951_morozov.html |archivedate=10 April 2005 |work=[[Pravda]] ))
* ((cite web |url=http://hnn.us/readcomment.php?id=27304 |title=Squalid truth of Stalin's little martyr |date=27 December 2003 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20050314010149/http://hnn.us/readcomment.php?id=27304 |archivedate=14 March 2005 |website= hnn.us |publisher= History News Network, [[Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media|Center for History and New Media]]))

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