Рожденные революцией: мемы революционной эпохи в языке и культуре современности

Abstract

The author looks at the linguistic and cultural legacy of the 1917 October revolution through the prism of the meme theory. Memes are reproducible and replicable units of cultural information that evolve in the process of inter-generational transfer - similar to genes that transfer biological information. The article analyzes transformation and evolu-tionary paths of content and evaluative components of such memes as "storming of the Winter Palace", "April theses", "gun salvo of the Aurora" and "Kerensky". Although memes can exist in collective memory in many different forms, the article pays particular attention to the verbal expression of these memes, since it is only the reproduction of memes through lan-guage that makes them truly universal.

В статье рассматривается языковое и культурное наследие Октябрьской революции сквозь призму теории мемов.