| Summary: | The article analyzesthe "free discussion on problems of linguistics" of 1950, which ended with the publications of Joseph Stalin, aimed at debunking the "new doctrine of language" proposed by Nikolai Marr. In the 1930s the slogan of the world revolution and the principle of the dictatorship of the proletariat, which Marrism was based on, already ceased to satisfy the needs of Soviet ideology and the interests of the State. However, until the early 1950s, the USSR leadership did not take into account the political features of Marr's theory, and only after realizing the destructiveness of ideas about the class nature of the language and calls for revolutionary changes in the language did a reaction from Stalin follow. An important point was the fact that the principles of Marrism did not correspond to the new direction of Soviet post-war policy, associated with the construction of the world socialist system in the form of a bloc of Slavic states. To justify their consolidation, the ideas of Slavic unity began to be actively used. The author pays special attention to revealing the essence of the changes in the Marxist theory, carried out under the auspices of Stalin. Their main purpose wasto establish in Sovietsocio-political thought a new principle of the State of the whole people, which also corresponded to the thesis of the language of the whole people. It is concluded that it was these motives that determined the need for linguistic discussion, and Stalin's works were written not only to demonstrate the anti-Marxist content of Marr's "new doctrine of language" but primarily in order to prepare the Soviet political discourse for the implementation of the principle of the State of the whole people.
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