Dmitrieva A.G. Socio-political ideals of the Soviet literature during the period of 1953-1991: contribution of the country prose

Abstract: The subject of this research is the socio-political ideals of the Soviet literature during the period of 1953-1991, particularly the representatives of the “country prose” in the literature. The object is the history of development of the Soviet literature starting with the very first post-Stalin publications of Ilya Ehrenburg, Fyodor Abramov, Vladimir Pomerantsev, and finishing with the works of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Vladimir Nabokov, Mikhail Bulgakov, Anna Akhmatova, and others. The analysis of the “country prose” allowed us to thoroughly examine the process of revision of the principles of socialist realism and rebirth of the “timeless values” within the literature that affected the Soviet political atmosphere. The scientific novelty consists in the comparative and historical analysis of the various directions in the Soviet literature, including the “country”, “urban”, and “military” prose, which allows speaking of waves of continuity and intermittence of the Soviet and Russian literature tradition, and their important contribution into the process of political transformation of the Soviet society and government.

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