Deconstruction/reconstruction of Soviet myth in T. Kibirov’s poem “Love, Komsomol, and Spring”

Abstract

The article is dedicated to strategies and tactics of engaging with the ‘Soviet text’ in T. Kibirov’s poem “Love, Komsomol, and Spring”. It identifies that the conceptual sphere of the Soviet era, as represented in the poem, was formed as a system of ‘frames’, consisting of constant and variable components. The work proves that the invariant aspects are implemented at the level of composition, while the variable ones are connected with themes and images of contents of the frames. A detailed analysis of semantic structure of the poem allowed for identification of the main principles of construction of the frames as a series of intertextual references, to songs in particular, forming the semantic field of Kibirov’s poem. The study consistently reveals and describes all the components of these frames, concluding that they are connected with ideological mythology of the Soviet era represented in the Soviet life and art of corresponding periods. Additionally, the research locates Kibirov’s position on the axis of tradition, demonstrating his complex relationship with conceptualism (indicated at the level of framework of the text). The main proposition of the article is to demonstrate Kibirov’s ambivalent view on the ideology and propaganda projects of the Soviet period. It proves that Kibirov was the first to employ the method of ‘double perspective’ on Soviet ideologemes, balancing between ironic detachment and personal involvement in the worldview context of the age.

Keywords

• conceptualism
• sociocultural frames
• ideologeme
• soviet history
• reception mechanism