The position of historical science of the Ukrainian SSR in the conditions of communist ideology in the years of Khrushchev’s «thaw» and the unfolding of Brezhnev’s «stagnation»

• Authors: Nadia Kindrachuk

Abstracts

EN

The article shows the complete subordination of historical science in the Ukrainian SSR to the ideology of the Soviet state. The concept of the historical development of the Ukrainian people during the 60s and 70s of the 20th century was determined not by scientists, but by party-communist ideologues. The concept of the rapprochement of nations, the creation of a «new historical community of Soviet people» and the condemnation of the ideology of «bourgeois nationalism» came to the fore. When researching the history of the Ukrainian SSR, scientists were tasked with not focusing on national differences and promoting the «exceptional» role of the Russian people in the life of Ukrainians in every possible way.

Keywords

EN

historical science; scientific research; communist ideology; Soviet totalitarian regime; falsification; intellectual resistance; national past of Ukraine; Ukrainian scientists; objectivity

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: Reality of Politics
• Year: 2023
• Issue: 23
• Pages: 34-48

Dates

published

2023

Contributors

author

Nadia Kindrachuk

• Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine

• https://orcid.org/0000000175050668

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Identifiers

DOI

10.15804/rop2023102

Biblioteka Nauki

2233971