
The book analyzes on the extensive factual material the discursive features of the Soviet culture of the 1920–1950s - the effectiveness of the “key concepts” of ideology in the communicative techniques of scientific persuasion and artistic expression. The main attention of the author is focused on thematic and genre preferences in the field of folklore and "folk art". The author gives his answers to the following questions: on what rhetorical, socio-psychological and institutional grounds in Soviet culture do socialist realism, epic (and quasi-epos), fairy tale (and “Soviet fabulousness”), the pathos of proletarian vigilance and popularity of lullabies, didactics of rationality and barely coexist.

















