Popular Science Topics of the Soviet Magazine Technique for Youth in
the Ideological Aspect

The article discusses the popular science theme of the Soviet journal “Technique for Youth” in an ideological aspect. The magazine is one of the
significant cultural constants of the Russian popular science periodicals and
originates in 1933, goes through the difficult history of the Soviet era, goes
through no less difficult periods of the formation of post-Soviet Russian society
and is being published steadily at present. For many generations of Soviet
youth, the magazine became the first serious school for familiarizing with the
engineering world, introduced the latest in scientific and technological progress,
taught high school students to dream and see themselves in the world of science
and invention. At the same time, the Soviet period in the history of the journal is
inextricably linked with its functioning as part of a total ideological discourse in
aspects of directed propaganda work with young generations. To reveal the features of the ideological design of popular science topics on the pages of the
journal, his issues for 1971 were selected. The beginning of the 1970s in Soviet
history is associated with the time of the progressive scientific, technical and
institutional development of the USSR, which has not yet passed into the controversial era of stagnation of the 1980s. Almost all articles and materials of the
journal of this time are more or less penetrated by historical optimism.