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Informative, Ideological and Didactic Role of the Occupation Press in Accustoming Ukrainians to Life Under the New Order (Based on the Material of Local Periodicals of the Sumy Region in 1942–1943)

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The authors of the publication:
Lytvynchuk Nataliia
p.:
145–154
UDC:
631.11:70:341.324](477.52)“1942/1943”
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.15407/mue2023.22.145
Bibliographic description:
Lytvynchuk, N. (2023) Informative, Ideological and Didactic Role of the Occupation Press in Accustoming Ukrainians to Life Under the New Order (Based on the Material of Local Periodicals of the Sumy Region in 1942–1943). Materials to Ukrainian Ethnology, 22 (25), 145–154.
Received:
20.06.2023
Recommended for publishing:
14.12.2023

Author

Lytvynchuk Nataliia

a Ph.D. in History, a research fellow at the Ukrainian Ethnological Centre Department of M. Rylskyi Institute of Art Studies, Folkloristics and Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Kyiv, Ukraine).

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0691-9662

 

Informative, Ideological and Didactic Role of the Occupation Press
in Accustoming Ukrainians to Life Under the New Order
(Based on the Material of Local Periodicals of the Sumy Region in 1942–1943)

 

Abstract

The Ukrainian present is focusing researchers’ attention on military topics. Interest in the study of the Second World War has especially increased, which gives reason to say that this period has been reactualized in national historical studies. The comprehension of the economic life in the context of the current hard times has encouraged the authoress of the submitted article to look at the studied problems through the lens of the past. In particular, the work is aimed at the searching and studying a collection of local magazines published during the German occupation in one of the regions. First of all, the task is to monitor information in propaganda periodicals related directly or indirectly to the economic system of the occupied territories. As a result of scientific research and analysis, the materials have been selected according to their form and content and grouped into four separate blocks. The first one includes administrative materials typical for the occupation press, through which the Hitler regime has regulated various spheres of economic activity of Ukrainians. The second block is formed with the published works covering the current situation in many sectors of the economy in a propaganda style, calling for compliance with a particular model of economic behavior. The third block contains articles by specialized experts who give practical advice to the public on how to run a personal peasant household. The fourth block includes actually short motivational texts used to direct the local population to live under the new order. Grouping the materials in this way and studying their content, among other things, have allowed us to trace how local newspapers performed several functions simultaneously during the German occupation: informative, ideological, and didactic. It is found that these media have covered a rather wide range of the Ukrainian economic system, but because of their ideological nature, the interpretation of the relevant content should a priori take into account the context of the social and political life of the time.

 

Keywords

wartime, occupation press, economy, domestic economic activity, national economic character.

 

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