IDEOLOGICAL CAMPAIGNS IN WESTERN SIBERIA IN 1945 – 1953 (CONTEMPORARY RUSSIAN HISTORIOGRAPHY OF THE PROBLEM)

Abstract

The paper presents the analysis of the researches dedicated to the problem of “Ideological campaigns in Western Siberia in 1945 – 1953” in the contemporary Russian historiography. The authors analyze a collection of works on this problem published in the early 1990s – 2015. The main directions in the researches of this topic were identified, which allowed classifying them into problematic thematic groups and identifying the promising research directions. The main group of the research works reflects the essence of the ideological campaigns targeted at influencing the Soviet intelligentsia. Researchers started reflecting over the ideological campaigns that focused on the formation of the image of J. V. Stalin in the mass consciousness. Further on, researchers addressed a number of aspects of the ideological campaigns that focused on repressions. The authors state that there is no complex academic publication dedicated to this problem and conclude that the problem of ideological campaigns in Western Siberia in the period of “late Stalinism” has not been studied thoroughly. The events of the ideological campaigns in Kemerovo Region were the first to be reconstructed. Creating generalizing reviews of the works covering the events of the ideological campaigns in different regions of Western Siberia in 1945 – 1953 is a promising research direction.

Keywords

• historiography
• contemporary russian researchers
• ideological campaigns
• intelligentsia
• repressions
• western siberia
• kemerovo region