The Soviet Adherer of the Pochvennichestvo: Reflections on the Worldview of Vladimir Alekseevich Chivilikhin

Abstract

The paper attempts to review the mindset and ideological foundations of the works by the Soviet writer and publicist Vladimir Chivilikhin, whose novel‑essay “Memory” was not only a phenomenon in the Russian Soviet literary process of the second half of the 20th century, but also served as an occasion for a broad public discussion, which allows us to consider it as the significant event of public life and the basis for analyzing the intellectual discourse of the late Soviet era. At the same time, the research is based not only on the author’s fiction and journalistic works, but also on personal materials (diaries, letters, memoirs) and is conducted in the context of social and ideological problems of the last decades of the Soviet period.