The book is a thematic continuation of the anthology “Twilight of Linguistics” (M., 2001); covers the history of Soviet linguistics from 1950 to 1990. second half of the 20th century. The book consists of a monographic essay on the history of Russian linguistics of the second half of the 20th century and the anthology itself, containing excerpts from the theoretical works of leading Soviet linguists, from magazine and newspaper publications, memoirs, conversations, as well as from chronicles of that era. The book is intended for students of philological specialties – as a teaching aid for the course “History of Linguistics of the 20th Century”; for students of the faculties of psychology, journalism, sociology, history and other humanities - as additional didactic material.