Social and Psychological Contexts of the Soviet Period in Latvian Detective Novels

Abstract

В статье анализируются особенности латышского детективного романа советского периода и рассматривается, как советская идеологическая система определила его развитие.

Peculiarities of Soviet ideology mean that literary works should follow a certain canon which reflects a positive image of Soviet society. In search of possibilities to reflect the diversity and contradictions of thissociety, many writers chose to emphasize psychological experiences grounded in the social environment, thus also diversifying the form of literary works. Detective novels became one of the types of Soviet socio-psychological prose. The aim of the research is to analyse the features of the Latvian detective fiction during the Soviet periodand to consider how the Soviet ideological system determined the development of the Latvian detective novel.