Utopian ideas of the Soviet musical avant-garde in historical memory

Currently, the media sphere has a significant impact on the content and transformation of historical memory. The image of the USSR and the corresponding connotations remain one of the main ones for modern communicative memory. The very fact of the emergence of Soviet Russia became a kind of embodiment of utopia with the subsequent statebuilding of the social ideal. The ideas of avantgardism connected with scientific and technological progress, with the cult of machines, with a radical revision of temporality came to the aid of the new state. The article assesses the contribution of Soviet avantgardists to the formation of the image of the USSR, and also shows how the utopias of the Soviet avantgarde are represented in the modern media environment. In particular, the author focuses on the work of Soviet composers targeted on the musical avantgarde; for example, a member of the Association for Contemporary Music A. V. Mosolov, whose composition «Factory: Machine Music» has recently been actively replicated abroad. Examples of the modern use of the theremin musical instrument, invented by L. Theremin at the dawn of the avantgarde, are also given. It is concluded that significant events and media projects cannot do without references to the Soviet musical avantgarde, which testifies to the relevance of the Soviet past, the demand for the constructive potential of the Soviet utopia, and the popularity of the ideas of avantgardism in general.