«Dance of life» by Gennadii Bashkuev: the Great Patriotic War in modern dram

Based on contemporary literature for theater we analize the play "U.S.S.R" (Union of Soldiers’ Soul Sore) by outstanding Buryat playwright Gennadii Bashkuev. This play is addressed to the events of the Great Patriotic War. We have noted the synthetic nature of the text, which includes, firstly, cinematic plan, explicit and implicit cinematic citations, and secondly, dance motif organizing chronotopos, stage space of the play, and involving its basic symbols. Through "dancing" style the playwright not only compositionly arranges the action and describes the characters, but also represents the entire historical epoch, and connects it with the motif of life eternal renewal.