Memorial article as a genre in the regional press of the second half of the 1940s (based on “Proletarskaya Pravda”)

This article discusses the genre of memorial articles, existed in the newspaper “Proletarskaya Pravda” and reflecting the major trends and patterns of development of literary criticism in Kalinin (now Tver) in the second half of the 1940s. The question of the ratio of the ideological and aesthetic principles in this form of literary-critical reflection in the context of the social consciousness of the era.