Russian rhetoric and speech culture: to the interconnection issue

We study the issues of rhetorical skill and speech culture. We briefly analyze rhetoric development in Russia, note the features of it in the 19th century, consider academic and judicial eloquence, contribution of lawyers to the development of rhetoric. This allowed to raise national rhetoric to a new stage of development as aexemplefied with mastery of public speeches, speech persuasion. We identify the features of the Soviet oratory. The Soviet mastery of public speech is a completely unique scientific and theoretical applied art aimed at agitation and promotion of the Soviet way of life. The further development of rhetoric and theory of speech culture is due to so-cial and economical and cultural transformations that have occurred in Russian society. This led to the need to create a fundamentally new theoretical concept, which is based on the close relationship and interaction of the substantive aspects of rhetoric, literature theory and speech culture. At the same time, only the focus of their consideration and study changed. Therefore, the modern speech situation evaluated in the Russian society ambiguously and should take into account not only the national traditions of studying rhetoric and the speech culture theory, but also the practical experience of the foreign approach, first of all, rhetoric, as well as the achievements of psycholinguistics, information theory, speech acts, national specifics of etiquette. The main thing that unites rhetoric and culture of speech is their purpose, and they differ in particular substantive aspects of their study and teaching.