The thesis deals with the literary and television articulation of the historical period between 1936 and the late 1960s in the novel "Kronika o našem malom mistu" and the television series "Naše malo misto". Both plots were considered in the trail of Bakhtin's thesis about the dialog between the prose word and the social context. Following the example of cultural studies, the scripts were used as a means of representing the whole culture in a small Dalmatian town, where the characters speak in different languages, which is simbolic for the whole region of Dalmatia, especially during socialism, but also a few years before its establishment. Through a cronological analysis of the events in both the novel and the television series, it is assumed that the focus is not only on the critical and ironic examination of capitalism, but also of socialism in the former Yugoslavia and politics in general. The ideological upheavals were accompanied by changes in the way of life, behavior and feelings of the citizens, which manifested themselves in the post-war food shortages, labor struggles, forced cultural progress, the first trips by train within the country or by car across the borders, then in the material desires for a refrigerator, a radio, TV or new clothes from Trieste, but also in the tourism boom or in the general family structure. When considering the same plot told in two different media forms, the advantage of the television series becomes apparent when it comes to documenting history in the form of visual and acoustic elements, in place of which the literary work leaves gaps that the literary recipient can hardly fill in a credible way unless he himself was part of that history.