THE POLITICAL ANECDOTE IN THE CONTEXT OF LATE SOVIET CULTURE
This article is dedicated to the soviet political anecdote is unique genre of folklore, which flourished in 1960-70th. The author don`t regard an anecdote as the means of the expression of political unloyalty, but stresses its playing function. An anecdote is explored here as the result of particular language situation of the culture of Late Soviet period in which the ideological reality, fixed in the official language, was perceived as self-sufficient and non-connected with validity, as the empty sign.