NEWSPAPER - LITERATURE - POLITICAL POWER (1920s - 1930s)

This article examines how the ideological cliches and propagandistic campaigns in Soviet newspapers of the 1920s and 1930s are reflected in the literature of the same period. Without ending the Great Purge, the Communist Party, hypocritically, called for its repressions to be stopped and innocent people to be rehabilitated. This campaign was described in the story 'The Rehabilitation' by the avant-garde writer Daniil Kharms. The article also deals with the propaganda campaign that began in the Soviet periodical press in August-September 1940. This was triggered by V. Molotov's report in which, envisaging the development of the Second World War, he summoned Soviet citizens to "readiness for mobilization". In literature, it stipulated the government's order to depict virtuous and heroic characters. The "readiness for mobilization" idea explains the criticism of A. Avdeenko for his partiality to negative characters and of A. Akhmatova for her lyric poems.