Discourse of private life in the late USSR: statement of the problem

The article is devoted to the dialogue between the government and intellectuals in the late USSR about the content and boundaries of private life of the soviet man. Taking into account a thesis that in the postwar USSR the sphere of private life is constantly expanding the author, using mainly archive material, shows the understanding of the content of this sphere by the intellectuals and in what direction the evolution of their ideas takes place. The key point of the article is the fact that the increasing process of privatization is not so much in defiance of the official soviet government and the official ideology but in close cooperation with them.