Manifestations of the phatic principle in the 1920s–1930s national literatures of the North Caucasus

The work contains analytical information about the processes of aesthetic unification and national identity of the North Caucasian literatures of the early twentieth century. The consideration is based on reflections on the nature of the ideological factors that influenced the division of national literatures into "traditional" and "newly written". The problem of continuity and isolation of the national literatures of the North Caucasus, the issues of ideological and artistic enrichment of Balkar literature with the principles of Soviet literature are analyzed. The methodology of the article is based on the Marxist-Leninist concept of the legacy of the past, which formed new judgments about national literatures. It is about the preservation of archetypes of different levels and comparing the degree of this preservation in the North Caucasian and Russian literatures.