Bìblìotečnij vìsnik (Jan 2018)
Musical Literature in Libraries of the Ukrainian SSR as the Object of Censorship (1946 - 1952)
Abstract
The article deals with the direction of the Soviet censorship institutes’ work on the ideological control of musical literature in the Soviet Ukraine during 1946 - 1952. The purpose of the proposed article is to show features of the implementation of censorship of music works in the libraries of the Ukrainian SSR. In his work the author used such methods: a retrospective, source analysis, problem-chronological, descriptive, analytical, theoretical generalization, and others. The study describes the practice of reviewing ideologically harmful works of the press, which were subject to withdrawal from the funds of the public use. The specificity of the restriction of musical works in the course of inspections of library funds disclosed by the researcher. Special attention is paid to the lists of authors of music, music treatments and texts that were declared «enemies of the people». Preparation of the proscriptions of books banned personalities of the Book chamber of Ukraine was analyzed by author. As a result of the analysis of archival sources the scientist showed mechanism for the prohibition of printed editions, the process of transferring publications in closed funds. The author came to the conclusion that in the late 1940’s-early 1950-ies musical literature was limited, it did not correspond to the Soviet ideology, especially the works of composers and musicologists, who were called «bourgeois nationalists». As author proves, the limitations of printed works subsequently had negative impact on the further development of Ukrainian culture.
