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Features of Soviet Everyday Life in Works of Arkady and Boris Strugatsky "Monday begins on saturday" and "Tale of the Troika"

Student: Kurenev Denis

Supervisor: Irina Gluschenko

Faculty: School of Cultural Studies

Educational Programme: Bachelor

Year of Graduation: 2014

<p>The 60-s is one of the most controversial and dynamic periods in the history of Soviet Union, which included two opposite processes: liberalization, deideologization&nbsp; of mass consciousness and translation of &ldquo;updated&rdquo; official ideology. Science fiction gained a great popularity at the end of the 50-s and the beginning of the 60-s and divides into two branches: massive science fiction and &ldquo;social&rdquo; or &ldquo;philosophic&rdquo; science fiction.&nbsp; The main function of massive science fiction was to support the mythic consciousness of soviet pioneer, while authors of social science fiction tried to go beyond the typical understanding of the common reality.</p><p>The author from the positions of social-historical method, according to which every fiction story may be a source of cultural and historical information about the concrete historic period, analyses two fiction stories of Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, who are one of the most common representatives of social science fiction. The author finds out features of soviet everyday life and the dynamic change of Strugatsy&rsquo;s &nbsp;brothers and other intellectuals attitude to the society and the image of soviet &ldquo;ideal&rdquo; person.</p><p>The analysis of these two work shows the fall of revolutionary optimism of the 60-s and occurrence of apathy and losing any reference points of social development in the 1967 when &ldquo;the Tale of the Troika&rdquo; was written. Such a transformation demonstrates existence of features of &ldquo;Era of Stagnation&rdquo; in a year to events of 1968, which is usually observed as a beginning of the stagnation period in the history of USSR.</p>

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