Musicology Annotation << Back «O.K. Great Britany and Russian Soviet Land!» Should the world be afraid of Russian Soviet songs of the period of World War II? Victory’s price Yaroslav V. Gloushakov This article was written based on the report at the international scientifi c conference dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the Victory «20th Century. Music of War and Peace», which took place at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory on 21–25 April 2015. The article discusses the song material of the Great Patriotic War as a symbol of the struggle and the Great Victory of the Soviet people against Nazism; it analyzes the conditions for the creation and existence of Soviet mass songs during wartime, the article reviews and analyzes the genres of songs, statistical data, including data of the Radio Committee – a powerful means of mass communication, one of the ways of spreading the songs during the Great Patriotic War. It also analyzes the current situation of mass songs of the war years and the attitude of some foreign states to the phenomenon of Soviet mass song. Keywords: Mass culture, popular song, The Great Patriotic War, World War II, Victory, propaganda. Contacts: E-mail: gloushakov@gnesin-academy.ru Pp. 10-16.