ПОЛИТИКА И ЛИНГВИСТИКА: "В НАЧАЛЕ БЫЛО "СЛОВО..."

The article is an attempt at a critical analysis of some discursive practices of Russian historical public language belonging to the Russian and Soviet political discourse. The construction of the language of official patriotism was an important aesthetic intervention in the language. The success in pseudo-historical texts can be attributed to a multi-faceted approach on the part of an ideological writer, an self-taught philologist and an amateur historian. The patriotic dogma has been elaborated through a quite fantastic linguistic theory and a no less mythologized theory of Russian and Soviet history.