БІБЛІОТЕКИ ЯК СОЦІАЛЬНІ ІНСТИТУТИ В УКРАЇНСЬКОМУ СУСПІЛЬСТВІ ПЕРІОДУ 1953 – 1964 РР. (НА МАТЕРІАЛАХ ДЕРЖАВНОГО АРХІВУ ПОЛТАВСЬКОЇ ОБЛАСТІ)
LIBRARIES AS SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS IN UKRAINIAN SOCIETY IN 1953 – 1965 (BASED ON SOURCES OF THE STATE POLTAVSKY REGIONAL ARCHIVE)

Summary/Abstract: Purpose of Article. The purpose of the research is to reveal the role and significance of libraries as the social institutions in the Ukrainian society of the Khrushchev “thaw” period (1953 - 1964) on the basis of analysis of the State Archives of the Poltava Region materials. Methodology of the research includes logical, institutional, analytical, problematic, chronological, historical-genetic, and historical-systemic methods, methods of comparison, analogy, synthesis, and analysis. Scientific novelty of the work is a claim that state ideological control limited the activity of libraries as well as formed the appropriate world view and stereotypes of Ukrainians’ critical thinking. At the same time, the weakening of ideological pressure led to the expansion of the accessible information boundaries, contributed to the loosening of the communist system as well as the establishment of new thinking.

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