The Hidden 1950s: Narrative of Prefigurative Culture

In the history of USSR, 1950s are a period rarely comprehended by historians as whole. Instead, they interpreted time transition from high Stalinism culture to thaw era. Meanwhile, at this time, economic and military-technical basis Soviet legacy was laid, which became Russian economy. The sociocultural factor that determined specifics is what Margaret Mead defined prefigurative — state society in adults learn their children, who endowed with new rights. It found its expression fiction art 1950s.