This paper aim is to reconstruct the role or religion and spirituality in the history of the Third Reich in order to highlight a much more important issue. This issue is related to the implementation of an authoritarian pedagogy in which various tools are being used to instrumentalize the human subject. Therefore this paper highlights the most significant elements of the processes that had led to the emergence of Nazi ideology and the specific form of spirituality popularized by Nazi officials. The method used to achieve this goals is based on critical analysis of the educational aspect of the mentioned process.
The article deals with the church and religious life of Ukrainians in the context of national and political processes during the 1960s and 1970s. The author characterizes the anti-religious policy of the Soviet government, shows its directions, forms, and methods, studies the attitude of Ukraine’s title nation representatives to religious persecution and to manipulation of religious consciousness by the communist leadership, and highlights comprehensive atheistic activities and the elimination of the ways for reviving religiosity among people. The author reveals the essence, the process of creating and artificially enforcing the new Soviet ritualism in Ukrainians’ lives. This ritualism has become a convenient tool for popularizing communist ideology in the Ukrainian SSR, destroying historical memory and undermining the national identity of the Ukrainian people. The new Soviet ritualism was also a means for implementing the policy of denationalizing Ukrainians, beginning with the age-old religious oppression of Ukrainian customs, traditions, and rituals. The model of state-church policy of the Soviet power in the described period was based on the use of a variety of forms and methods of struggle against religion, including: a comprehensive control over clergy activities, destruction of religious sites and sacred objects, as well as administrative, moral, and political pressure on believers. Displacing religion, the Soviet totalitarian state destroyed not only native religious customs of the Ukrainian people, but also violated the principles of the centuries-old traditional culture and undermined the national fortitude of Ukrainians.
This article examines the end of the 60's – 70's of the XX century, the time characterized by intensification of repressive management of historical science in the USSR, the establishment of censorship and harassment, forcing the Ukrainian historians to serve the needs of the Soviet totalitarian state. Rejection of historical science from ideological foundations of the Communist Party was impossible. Ideological supervision of the intelligentsia in Ukraine and total control of historical research institutions started. Ruling Communist Party fought against dissidents, media and folowers of «Ukrainian bourgeois nationalism ideology», shaped prejudice to all national. The least manifestation of patriotism of Ukrainians was regarded as anti-Soviet activity. Ukrainians were reluctantly forced to feel inferior nation without its own long history.
Publikacja stanowi pokłosie międzynarodowej konferencji naukowej Archiwa w państwach totalitarnych w Europie Środkowej i Wschodniej, która odbyła się w Lublinie i Sandomierzu w dniach 5-7 września 2018 roku. Wzięli w niej udział liczni badacze ze wspomnianej części Europy, którzy pochylili się nad zagadnieniem wpływu partii komunistycznej i organów władzy państwowej na działania archiwalne, m.in. na obsadę stanowisk dyrektorów archiwów państwowych, zaangażowanie instytucji w szerzeniu propagandy komunistycznej itp. Książka jest pierwszym w Polsce tego typu opracowaniem problematyki politycznego kontekstu działania archiwów i stanowi zachętę do podjęcia dalszych badań nad tym zagadnieniem. Dodatkowym bodźcem może być dorobek niemieckich naukowców, którzy przeanalizowali funkcjonowanie archiwów w Niemieckiej Republice Demokratycznej i ukazali nowe pola badawcze.
JavaScript is turned off in your web browser. Turn it on to take full advantage of this site, then refresh the page.