The social and economic aspects of "rural prose" (on the essays by L. Ivanov and T. Sablina)

The ending of 50th and the beginning of the 60th is the special period in the development of Russian literature, received the name “thaw”. At that time literature, especially “rural prose”, approaches the reality, trying to overcome a recurrence of absence of conflict. The writers - “villagers” put acute moral, philosophical and social problems in their works. It also belongs to the Siberian essay prose about the village.In article the art originality of sketches of Leonid Ivanov and Tamara Sablina analyzed in the context of a social and economic perspective is analyzed. In the second half 1950th - 1960th years the Siberian authors became successors of the tradition of a “rural” essay at which origins "Regional everyday life" by V. Ovechkin stood. The essays by V. Ovechkin based on connection of the traditions of an industrial essay and rural subject have laid the foundation of the new direction in the Soviet literature - the rural “business” journalism having changed the “collective-farm literature” representing the village only in colored tones. Updating and open discussion of the problems connected with collective-farm construction and Party management of the village became distinctive feature of this direction.The essay by Leonid Ivanov, the graduated economist and the agronomist-agriculturist, the profound knowledge of rural life distinguishes: in his texts statistical calculations and economic forecasts has got the special art force and expressiveness. Tamara Sablina's essays solve a number of specific objectives: texts contain not just instructions on the reasons of the negative phenomena in management of agriculture, and offer concrete ways of their decision.