The Phenomenon of Variety in the Culture of "Thaw" Epoch
This article is devoted to the culture of the “Thaw” and the phenomenon of variety in this period of Soviet history. “Thaw” is a cultural metaphor for the transition from political “winter” (“Stalin era”) to political “spring” (the first experience of de-Stalinization). One of the characteristic phenomena of the “Thaw”-“pop poetry”-the creativity of young poets (E. Yevtushenko, A. Voznesensky, R. Rozhdestvensky, B. Akhmadulina, B. Okudzhava, and others), who performed with the reading of their poems in front of a large audience. “Pop poetry” of the 1950s and 1960s constituted a kind of synthesis of arts, in which the poetic word was combined with musicality and theatricality. The variety in Soviet history represented a new Gesamtkunstwerk-for a mass audience of readers, listeners and spectators. The variety of the “Thaw” epoch was means of mass communication, a cultural mechanism for the massovization of art and carnivalization, a way of deconstruction of stereotypes of Stalinism