Stolyar M. The laughter-culture of a totalitarian society: essence, forms and instrument of functioning (as it existed in Soviet cultural practices).

The object – the Soviet laughter culture; the aim – the creation of the integrated conception of the Soviet laughter culture and its unique cultural meaning in the conditions of the totalitarian practices, based on the analysis of forms, content and instrument of functioning of this culture; the methods – hermeneutical, phenomenological, structural, cryptoreligious, existential, dialectical, logical-historical, deconstruction; the novelty – the author innovatively develops an integrated conception of the Soviet laughter culture; the essence, the main historic forms and instrument of functioning of it are defined and analyzed; the meaning of this culture is shown in according to its complex – both oppositional and conventional – relations with the sacralized practices of the Soviet ideology; the results – the results of the investigation can be integrated into the pedagogical process and be instrumental for the high school methodological seminars; the area – the philosophical anthropology, the philosophy of culture.