Tatiana Vyacheslavovna Savina,
Candidate of Philology, Novosibirsk State Technical University, Novosibirsk, Russia, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Speaking Bolshevik? The Language of a Communist Party Member in Soviet Prose of the “Thaw” Period
DOI: 10.31518/2618-9100-2022-6-13
Based on the analysis of the “Thaw” period Soviet prose, the article examines the question of destruction of the official Soviet language canon. The article concludes that the destruction of the external form of the language canon occurred at the expense of satirical techniques, while the semantic indivisibility of the language canon was undermined through irony: desacralization of the “meta-text” opened the possibility of its de-ideologization. However, the main ideologemes and myths proved resistant to destruction, since they were not external linguistic markers, but were embedded in the linguistic consciousness of a Soviet man. The Soviet Union was a space modeled by political texts. This space along with the ideologically generalized world-view of “Soviet people” were still not questioned in the literature of the “Thaw” period.
Publishing: 28/12/2022
The article has been received by the editor on 15/09/2022
How to cite: Savina T.V. Speaking Bolshevik? The Language of a Communist Party Member in Soviet Prose of the “Thaw” Period // Historical Courier, 2022, No. 6 (26), pp. 164–179. [Available online: http://istkurier.ru/data/2022/ISTKURIER-2022-6-13.pdf]
Links: Issue 6 2022
Keywords: “Thaw” Soviet prose; language canon; political meta-text; Soviet identity