A. A. Zinoviev: reflections on Soviet man and Soviet being

The article analyzes the main ideas of A. A. Zinoviev about the nature of the Soviet society and Soviet man. The author proceeds from the idea that in their existence people follow one of two known histories of worldview constructs – business and communal. And if in the business structure people are focused primarily on satisfying their material and spiritual needs, then in the communal one their relationship is determined by the compulsion of being together, caring about how to settle in these relations. Not the matter itself, but the conditions, circumstances of doing, despite the fact that the turn does not always reach the matter, the characteristic of this construct. Soviet people always elect the second. The Soviet model of a social structure is not only far from the Marxist idea, but it destroys the fundamental basis of communism – «proletarians, unite» and «the condition for the development of everyone – the condition for the development of all.» Stalin, who discovered and realized communist communality in the USSR, was one of the most adequate rulers for Russia, who was at the head of the country not thanks to personal characteristics, but as a result of a reaction to the needs and aspirations of society. In his analysis of the Soviet man and Soviet being, Zinoviev does not bother to reflect on many tragic phenomena of reality – the destruction of entire social strata that possessed or were related to property and its forms of legitimization. For him, all these people, as well as their persecutors were «scum.» Zinoviev's views are an example of a sympathetic understanding weighed down by a predetermined idea – the Soviet system and Stalin are the best forms of public life of Russians.