Socialist realism realization of apocrypha proves to be one of the evidences of 'deep' community of enemies. Medieval in its form and communist in its contents, socialist apocrypha becomes a genre form of biographic stories devoted to the leaders of the proletariat revolution, and as an orthodox message of communist belief it fills the blanks of canonical writings or - precisely - the leaders' official biographies. 'Engineering of human souls' to a lesser degree utilizes the characteristic of apocrypha art of imagery and to a large extent takes up its parenetic-persuasive functionality.