Late Stalinism, the period between the end of the Second World War and the death of the dictator in 1953, was the most isolated period of Soviet history. The political leaders saw the world as divided into two parts, and everything outside their own camp as ruled by unalterably hostile capitalist and imperialist war-mongers, eager to annihilate the Soviet Union. Internationalism, once a fundame...

The aim of this paper is to explore the reactions to the Bolshevik Revolution of one group of critics from the left: those who saw it as ushering in a new form of capitalism. The controversy over state capitalism had both theoretical and practical significance. At the analytical level it presented an important test of Marx’s conception of historical materialism, which had been formulated in a l...

The article reveals the features of formation and functioning aesthetic research in such two areas Marxism as Soviet Chinese. study identified three key stages development aesthetics – pre-war (the 1920s 1930s), late Stalinism Khrushchev thaw, period (1970-1980s). It should be noted that context Marxism, tasks were becomes influential in-demand science, included program "technical progress" "ed...

This paper is devoted to clarifying the essence of ruscism as a phenomenon modern socio-political reality. It noted that concept appeared in public and scientific circulation result formation Putin's regime Russia, its spread connected with beginning full-scale Russian-Ukrainian war. Although this has already received interpretations publications number analysts, there still no complete concept...

This article considers the short period of existence Orange Circle literary brigade in Chelyabinsk (1939–1940). Sharing belief building communism, team developed outside Union Soviet Writers and relied on aesthetics Silver Age their work. was probably due to influence its leader Alexey Bykov, a writer who began his career St Petersburg early twentieth century published novel Thistle (1907). Unf...

The article deals with the problem of rise in 1950s – first half 1960s, context formation idea Soviet Ukraine philosophy Western world, image Kyiv philosophical school as a prominent participant international scientific process Cold War era. This emerged during Khrushchev’s “thaw” or stage metamorphosis USSR from Stalinism to neo-Stalinist stagnation, namely between XX (1956) and XXIV (1971) Co...

The purpose of article is to use the example Zhytomyr Oblast and describe daily survival practices women collective farmers in conditions reconstruction farm system famine 1946-1947 peculiarities their perception those transformational processes, which they were witnesses participants of.
 Scientific novelty. topic everyday life Ukrainian village period late Stalinism considered from aspec...

The paper examines literary features of Maryna Hrymych’s novel “Klavka” (2019). variety methods used in the work is interesting for analysis. These are use historical background with a detailed description realities time; introduction writers’ personalities as characters; continuation urbanistic “Kyiv” theme using contemporary toponyms; urban folklore; hero multi-narrator; quoting poetry that t...