Fedotova O. The politic censorship of the printed issues in Soviet Ukraine: formation, technology, evolution. 1919 – 1990.

The dissertation is dedicated to histories of the political censorship of the printed issues in Soviet Ukraine. For the first time the variety of form and methods of ideological and political control over printed works are shown in this research. Ideological control was realized by state organs, censorship institutions during the period of 1919 – 1990. The author considers the main directions of censorship activity on checking for library, museum and book trade spheres, the import of literature from abroad, conservation of the state secret in the press. The analyzed functions of the censorship in the manner of prohibitions of the printed works, censorship interference, “library cleaning”, development of proscription materials are presented in the work. The peculiarities of realization of censorship policy in Ukraine on different stages are tracked by the way of introduction into scientific use a number of archival sources (party, censorship, state, public) from funds of the state archive collections.