Horbyk R. Content of the Illustrated Entertaining Press in the Late 1920s - Early 1930s in the Systems of Social Communications of Ukraine and Germany

The dissertation presents research into a number of illustrated magazines published in the Soviet Ukraine and Weimar Republic between 1928 and 1930 ("Hlobus", "Vsesvit", "Universalnyi zhurnal", "Chervonyi perets", "Nova hromada", "Dekada", "Die Gartenlaube", "Simplicissimus", "Das Illustrierte Blatt", "Illustrierter Beobachter"). By reconstructing the historical context, this research clarifies their bibliographic data, outlines their social history as well as the circumstances of their publication, locates the link of their morphology and ideological functions.Methodologically the study departs from the "grounded theory" approach that posits essentially atheoretical approach based on the researcher's close interaction with data. Saturation-oriented qualitative sample was coded until no new categories would emerge; at a later stage, the narrower categories were interpreted and analyzed to form larger ones, which laid out the basis for the semantic mapping of the content. Apart from that, the approach applied here was informed by social history (as practiced by Roger Chartier in "The Order of Books") and, to a much lesser extent, microhistory (inspired by Carlo Ginzburg in "The Cheese and the Worms").