MODERN UKRAINIAN HISTORIOGRAPHY OF CULTURAL LIFE OF THE YOUTH OF THE UKRAINIAN SSR IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE 1950s – 1980s

Abstract

The article attempts to analyse and synthesize (generalize) the scientific contribution of Ukrainian historians, which was published during the period of state independence of Ukraine and was devoted to the problem of the cultural life of the youth of the Ukrainian SSR in the second half of the 1950s – 1980s. It was established that in general the subject of the works was aimed at studying such aspects as the influence of the ethnonational policy of the muscovite communist regime on the youth of the Ukrainian SSR, their everyday life, more specifically – the nature and specifics of the activities of youth organizations controlled by the government, etc. At the same time, scientists mainly focused on individual socio-cultural groups – secondary (pupils) and higher (students) education applicants. Occasionally, they did not bypass the problems of subcultures, which became a phenomenon of the cultural life of the Ukrainian SSR of the studied era. In the 2020s, scientific interpretations of various aspects of the cultural life of youth were expanded by the dissertations of O. Lavrut, N. Novorodovska, V. Popovych. Certain aspects of the cultural life of youth are highlighted in studies devoted to Soviet ethno-national policy in the Ukrainian SSR. It is worth emphasizing the thorough research of Yu. Kahanov. The growth of interest of scientists in the youth (student) environment was especially promoted by such a methodological direction as the history of everyday life. In general, modern Ukrainian historiography considers the cultural life of the youth of the Ukrainian SSR in the second half of the 1950s – 1980s as a complex socio-historical phenomenon that accumulated and reflected the interaction of official ideology and increasingly popular informal cultural practices (later – structures). At the same time, the attention of researchers remained focused, as before, mainly on state (party) policy, and studies of the perception/representation of cultural and social processes by the youth of the Ukrainian SSR themselves are still outside the scope of scientific cognitive interests.