Mozgovsky M. The campaign of totalitarian system against public figures of Ukrainian science and culture during postwar period (1946-1953)

The object of study – totalitarianism, law of its functioning in Ukraine. The purpose of study is to show on the basis of the careful analysis and generalization of the archival and published sources, memoirs and materials of periodic press struggle of totalitarian system against public figures of the Ukrainian science and culture. The methods used in the research are: problem-thematic principle, method of empirical knowledge. The practical value of work consists in use of dissertation’s materials and conclusions for preparation of special works on a history of postwar period culture, by development of lecture courses on a history of Ukraine in high and average educational institutions. Тhe competitor has studied policy, activities and deeds of the totalitarian regime towards the public figures as scientists, writers, composers and artists during the strenuous postwar period on the basis of various, broad sources. Zhdanov A.O. organized a number of ideological persecutions on Stalin’s initiative in 1946-1948. The resolutions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party that exposed different misrepresentations and mistakes in historical science, literature and music had found support and response in Ukraine. The analogies to “ideological distortions”, “mistakes”, “misrepresentations” of so-called bourgeois-nationalistic character were immediately “revealed”. The consequences of the so-called “Lysenkyvschyny” did not pass over Ukraine. The tendency in science impeded the development of Genetics and Cybernetics. Such Ukrainian composers as Lyatoshynsky B., Kolessa M. and others were considered as representatives of the “anti-popular, formalistic, harmful for soviet music” trend. The campaign started against “servility to the West” at the end of 1948 in Ukraine and later against “cosmopolitism”. The manner in which Party-State leaders treated famous scientists, writers, and artists is analyzed in the thesis.