About the book: 2018 / This monograph is a comprehensive study devoted to the civil aspect in the works of V. Vysotsky, mainly on the topic "The Poet and power.” A single socio-political subtext was identified in works on a wide variety of topics: automobile, sports, military, prison camp, maritime, religious, fairy tales, medical and music. Parallels between Vysotsky’s poems and the works of M. Lermontov, N. Nekrasov are considered , M. Saltykov-Shchedrin, A. Blok, S. Yesenin, V. Mayakovsky, O. Mandelstam, M. Bulgakov, I. Ilf, E. Petrov, E. Schwartz, Ven. Erofeev, A. Galich, I. Brodsky and other writers. Particular attention is paid to the connections between Vysotsky’s work and Soviet camp folklore. The poet’s phonograms and manuscripts are exhaustively analyzed, numerous draft versions are put into circulation (including previously unpublished ones from the trilogy “History of a Case”) "and the poem "The Executioner"). The book is intended for everyone who is interested in the poetry of Vladimir Vysotsky and Soviet history of the second half of the 20th century.