In the ideological battles of our time: Kyiv, Vydavnytstvo khudozhnoi literatury «Dnipro» [Publishing House of Fiction ‘Dnipro’], 1981, 183 p.

The aim of the book is to consider universal cultural processes as a competition between modernist Western art and Soviet socialist realism, where the latter, in the author's opinion, has undoubted advantages.

CONTENTS

The challenge of the history (Instead of a preface)

The aesthetics of Leninism in the context of contemporary ideological confrontation

Insidious intentions of the class enemies of Leninism's aesthetics

The aesthetics of Leninism as a theory and methodology of analyzing artistic phenomena

The ideological essence of contemporary bourgeois falsifications of Leninist aesthetic principles.

The dead ends of ‘depoliticization’ and ‘de-ideologization’ of artistic creativity

The growing ideological role of artistic creativity as a trend in the contemporary development of literature and art

New modifications of the old slogan of ‘ideological neutrality’ of spiritual culture

Marxist-Leninist ideology is an expression of objective truth and vital truth

Historical reality and artistic understanding of man

The problem of man in contemporary artistic practice and ideological struggle

Contrary to vital truth and artistic truth

At the behest of proletarian classism and socialist collectivism

Emblems and problems of the epoch

In the grip of deceptive bourgeois consciousness

The humanistic essence of comprehending the era of the scientific-technological revolution in the literature of socialist realism

A hymn to man