Особенности политических дискуссий в советской литературе 1960-1980-х гг.

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Abstract: The subject of this work is the peculiarities of the political debates within the Soviet literature of the 1960-1980’s. The object of the research is the “reformers” and the “conservators” of the literary segment, who established on the pages of the journals “New World” and “October” the key topics of the political debates: overcome of the “cult of personality”; relations with the West, corruption; political and economic difficulties in construction of socialism, crisis of the socialistic realism; revitalization of national character and Russian culture under the conditions of infiltration by the Western elements; and also the role of Christianity in the Soviet society. In the course of this work, the author conducted a comparative analysis of the Soviet literary sources (including the journals “New World” and October”), historical monographs, and other Soviet and foreign scientific journals. In the conclusion it is stated that these political debates contributed into the formation of the new ideological and theoretical directions, which served as the foundation of the modern Russian culture.