The idea - the word - the embodiment in the construction of the Soviet sociocultural space in the 1920s and 1930s

When studying the modern era, the topic of constructing social reality is increasingly raised. In this regard, it seems necessary to address a significant period in the development of Russia, when, after the collapse of the old order, a monumental task arose to create a new state and form a new mental space. The use of art not only as an aesthetic practice but also as a structure serving the ideological construction of social reality became a defining element of the cultural strategy of the Soviet state. Mythologemes – transformative universal mythological themes and images – played no small role in this, becoming the basis for the formation of a new collective consciousness. The article shows how the new Soviet space was illuminated, coded, and formed as an ideological product, as well as how creators of various forms of art used cultural space to express what Catherine Clark calls the "cartography of power" – the ideological landscape. In writing this article, the authors relied on the principle of historicism, which, combined with an anthropocentric approach and cultural analysis, allowed them to reveal the peculiarities of the functioning of mythologemes in the Soviet socio-cultural space of the 1920s and 1930s. A table was compiled to systematize the information. The main task of this research is to study the features of the use of mythologemes in various forms of art. In transitional epochs, the relationships between the old and the new, which is in the process of formation, are most tense and develop in a dialectical dialogue. The embodiment of ideas and words, the complex relationships between social ideas, their transformation into representations of the future world and the future person, not only in post-revolutionary art and literature but also in a broader historical and cultural context, is an extremely important topic for the entire revolutionary culture. The authors conclude that during times of revolutionary transformations, when social structures are being destroyed, traditions are rejected, and previous ethical norms and values are overturned, mythical rationality assists power in legitimizing the new political regime and, by interpreting reality, contributes to the unification of people.

socialist realism, ideology, art, Lenin, mythologems, mental space, Stalin, soviet man, soviet woman, happy soviet childhood