SOVIET WRITERS' UNION OF TATARSTAN - SOCIAL GROUP
The article attempts to answer the question - «What is USW (the Unity of Soviet Writers) in the sociological sense?» This was done on the example of USWT (the Unity of Soviet Writers of Tatariya). USWT was the organization with the creative nature, bringing together for joint activities of writers with shared professional interests and standing on a single ideological-political platform, and adhering to the method of socialist realism. Therefore, according to all signs and features, USWT can be attributed to social groups.