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This article is an attempt at sociocultural and sociolinguistic studies of texts of the poetic generation of Perestroika, i.e. poets whose “mentality” and “writing style” were formed in the 1970s, and whose active participation in the literary process began in the 1980s. The purpose of the study is to identify the main features of the paradigm of Perestroika (common sociocultural emotions, the system of values, the “passwords” of the epoch, the set of keywords and “things”, the general type of semiotic relations and “paradigm-forming” language), reflected in the work of the generation represented by meta-realists I. Zhdanov, A. Parshchikov, A. Eremenko, V. Aristov, A. Dragomoshchenko, etc.), conceptualists (D. A. Prigov, L. Rubinstein, T. Kibirov), and ironists (V. Druk, N. Iskrenko, Y. Arabov). In the study of poetic texts, the author employs corpus and linguocultural comparative analysis methods, determining the key words and concepts of the epoch of Perestroika by means of continuous sampling from specialised dictionaries. Additionally, they are singled out using the method of discourse analysis in political journalism texts. In the poetry of the 1980s–2000s, the author manages to identify reflexes of the concept of “stagnation” in the use of tautologies, and of the “bilingualism” of the Soviet time in the oppositions between “simple” and “complex”, “literal” and “poetic”, “superficial” and “deep”, “Hell” and “Paradise”, which is associated with the concept of “personal space” in the context of “unbundling” and “humanisation” characteristic of the restructuring. The article also discusses the parallels of the concept of open world, cooperation and co-creation, “glasnost” and democracy with the principles of building a poetic world and relations with the reader. As a result, the author concludes that the poetry of the 1980s–2000s is naturally incorporated into the socio-cultural and linguistic paradigm of Perestroika.