The features of realization of the writers’ creative potential of the autonomous republics of the Urals in the late Soviet period

Abstract

Background. The article examines the impact of creative resource opportunities of the writers of the autonomous republics of Udmurtia and Bashkiria on the formation of the Soviet socio-cultural space. Occupying an important place in the structure of spiritual production, writers contributed to the spread of the ideals of the Soviet era, the formation of public opinion, and the improvement of the general culture of the population. The subject of the study is the process of realizing the writers’ creative potential in the late Soviet era, chronologically covering the second half of the 1960 until 1985. The objectives of the study are to identify the main areas of creative and social activity of writers; to analyze the genre diversity of the products of the intellectual activity of the Ural writers in the conditions of ideological regulation. Materials and methods. The solution of the set research tasks was facilitated by the analysis of unpublished office documents extracted from the archives of the National Archives of the Republic of Bashkortostan and the Center for Documentation of the Modern History of the Udmurt Republic, as well as published materials, certificates, resolutions, transcripts of state and public organizations. The study was carried out using a system-historical approach based on the scientific principles of historicism, consistency and objectivity, using the possibilities of retrospective, historical-comparative, problemchronological methods in conjunction with universal general scientific methods of analysis, synthesis, and modeling. Results. The genre diversity of literary creativity, national writers, its relationship with theatrical art is determined, an increase in publishing activity indicators is revealed, the role of public activity of writers of the Udmurt and Bashkir Autonomous Republics in the growth and complication of the cultural space of the region is characterized. Conclusions. The process of realizing the creative potential of the national writers of the autonomous republics of the Urals was carried out in the transforming conditions of the persisting ideologization with the intensification of the tendency of the creative intelligentsia to turn to the ethnic tradition, which enriched the created works with the depth of moral search within the framework of socialist realism. The conditions created by the party and state bodies for the realization of the writers’ creative potential contributed to a quantitative and qualitative increase in the indicators of their activity.

Keywords

• creative potential
• cultural space
• soviet writers
• national soviet dramaturgy
• theatrical art
• the urals