“Freiland”: Origins and Outcomes of the Russian Liberal-Socialist Discourse
The article looks at the most important milestones in the evolution of the liberal-socialist discourse in the Russian political linguoculture of the 19th-21st centuries, its realization and implementation in the situation of the Russian reality, and the beginning, flourishing and cessation of its perception. The heuristic potential of the study is based on the use of the notion of “constant”, which successfully allows the researcher to explore and cognize complex phenomena of the surrounding reality. In this particular case, the author argues that the decisive criterion of discourse is a special linguistic environment in which language constructs are created and manifest themselves as ideology in actualized texts that acquire socially relevant meanings. The historical-sociological background of this research creates the phenomenon of asynchronous development of cultures. The liberal-socialist discourse is analyzed, respectively, from the historical-philological positions. The novel by Th. Hertzka “Freiland” constitutes the research material of the study. It was allowed by the Soviet censorship to be mentioned as a herald of liberal-socialist ideas until the 80s of the twentieth century. However, for the Russian political linguoculture, the practical examples of the liberal-socialist discourse remained for two centuries only a projection of an ideal and unattainable picture of the world. Therefore, as genuine values, including political ones, they have never been perceived by society.