"Working out of the Past" (Patriotic war in a mirror of a modern masscult)
the mass culture as a source of formation of memory of the Soviet past is considered in the article, told about the fact of leaving from the present and a source of remakes; formation of new genre skeleton of a modern fiction is investigated, thus game in «the Soviet novel» and «the espionage novel» as one of displays of the first and also engraving stories appears the most demanded.