Hermeneutic analysis of socialist children's literature and features of its impact on youth in the USSR

the article considers the application of hermeneutic analysis for the study of socialist children's literature and the features of its impact on youth in the USSR. The research goal is to analyze the features of the emergence of fiction in the USSR, the task of which was to form a new society. The research objectives are to analyze the scientific discourse of the topic under study; to identify the features of children's fiction of the Soviet period; to systematize the results obtained. The research methodology is based on the literary approach and includes a historiographical analysis of scientific literature on the topic of the study; formal logical analysis, comparison, systematization, generalization. As a result, the following conclusions were formulated: Soviet literature was censored and used as an instrument of ideological influence on schoolchildren, through propaganda slogans and inducing linguistic strategies. Reading literature was not enough to ideologize society, so a hermeneutical approach was used to exclude dissent and form an immanent understanding of the text. Socialist realism, which developed from 1931 onwards, was aimed at teenagers as young as 14 who were susceptible to suggestion. Hermeneutics was necessary due to the age of the first generation of the USSR and for the ideological indoctrination of the mostly illiterate working and peasant class, in accordance with the educational tasks of the party.

hermeneutics, psychological impact, the USSR, socialist literature, children's literature, youth, fiction, socialism