The article is devoted to the study of the formation of historical memory due to the transformation of everyday practices on the example of Soviet songs of the 1930s. During this period, characterized by a changes in cultural imperatives, songs retained their role as the most important accessible form of leisure and were actively used for the implementation of ideologically correct, from the point of view of the authorities, ideologemes. The author comes to the conclusion that the most popular historical event was the Civil war, the memory of which was necessary for the education of a new generation of Soviet people, who, like their fathers, should successfully defend the achievements of the revolution. At the same time, the past proved to be an important foundation, but the aspiration to the future was strongly emphasized, in which there will be no place for old “remnants” and “a new day will overtake yesterday”.