THESAURUS OF LATE SOVIET CHILDREN’S PERIODICALS. REVIEW OF THE BOOK BY T. V. DUBROVSKAYA, O. A. MUSORINA, N. YU. VIDINEEVA, YA. A. BLOKHINA MEDIATIZED MODEL OF SOVIET SOCIETY IN “PIONEER” AND “KOSTER” MAGAZINES (1970–1980). PENZA, 2023

Abstract

The magazine presents a monograph by Tatyana Dubrovskaya, Olga Musorina, Yana Blokhina and Natalia Vidineeva, devoted to the children’s periodical press of the late Soviet era. Drawing on the lexical and thematic content of the “Pioneer” and “Koster” magazines, the researchers reconstruct the pattern of social norms and values in late-Soviet society. The monograph begins with a historical essay on the 1970s and 1980s, linked to publishing processes in the field of children’s periodicals. The main content of the book is an analysis of word usage in the corpus of magazine texts cited for the period 1970–1989. Lexemes are grouped according to individual onomastic concepts (anthroponyms, toponyms), character or thematic features, and statistical calculations of the occurrence of certain lexemes are carried out. This book presents one of the variants of the Soviet “dictionary” of values, specific to one era and one genre, and allows us to reflect on the extent to which children’s periodicals contributed to the formation of the normative model of late Soviet society.

Keywords: Soviet children’s magazines, “Pioneer”, “Koster”, lexicology, dictionary, model