Introduction. The introduction formulates the relevance and novelty of the undertaken research, which are provided by two important factors: firstly, a broad empirical base of research - drama and fiction of a famous creative personality in the history of Russian culture and literature of the turn of the XX–XXI centuries ‒ M. I. Arbatova, secondly, the methodology and methods of studying language material that allow us to make new scientifically promising conclusions and generalizations. The purpose of this work is to analyze and describe systematically organized markers of Soviet ideological discourse: meaningful, semantic and stylistic, in the works of M. I. Arbatova. Materials and methods. The empirical material for the analysis was the new literary texts and dramatic works by M. I. Arbatova, which had not previously been studied from the standpoint of modern methodology – discourse linguistics based on the use of the method of discourse analysis and the semantic-stylistic method, which make it possible to identify, systematize and describe the most important markers of Soviet ideological discourse. Research results, discussions. The results of the study should include: 1) identification and systematization of the main markers of Soviet ideological discourse in M. I. Arbatova’s artistic picture of the world; 2) selection of an algorithm for discourse analysis of artistic author’s communication: combining ideologically oriented contexts in dramaturgical and artistic works by M. I. Arbatova into a single holistic discourse; identification of linguistic units of different levels of language reflecting the meaningful and semantic unity of the Soviet ideological discourse; definition of discursive (implicative) semantics of ideologies. The conclusion contains the results and conclusions of the conducted research. Soviet ideological discourse in M. I. Arbatova's artistic communication represents a single holistic context, which is systematically organized (meaningfully, semantically and stylistically) and is based on a meaningful and semantic opposition: institutional (official) ideological discourse and individual authorial (unofficial). The selected members of the semantic opposition have different semantic and stylistic potential for the realization of categorical features of Soviet ideological discourse. The systematization and description of semantic and stylistic linguistic means of representation of the Soviet ideological discourse ensures the novelty of the results obtained.