Abstract
"The study looks at the phenomenon of ideological manipulation in translated literary works. The author highlights the tactics utilized in the translated texts to manipulate readers, using existing translations of historical fiction «The Nomads» by Ilyas Yesenberlin, published in the Soviet era. Influenced by the existing political system of that period, ideological influence and censorship in the Soviet Union that was pervasive and strictly enforced, literary text translations into Russian contain numerous evidence of ideological manipulation that was common for any literary work published in the Soviet period. Based on a review analysis of theoretical materials on the research topic, this article aims to define the leading role of idealogy on fiction translation by exemplifying cases of ideological shifts in the Russian translation of the historical trilogy «The Nomads» by I. Yesenberlin as well as reception of the translation among translation scholars. During the research, the following methods were applied: classification method, comparative analysis, review analysis of scientific articles and studies on the research topic. Based on the results of the study, hypotheses were formulated that have theoretical and practical significance for further work on the research topic. Keywords: ideological shifts, literary translation, historical fiction, rewriting, manipulative strategies. "