Культурно-мистецьке життя Ізмаїльщини у 1945-1953 рр.

Abstract

One of the latest trends in modern domestic historical science is the further regionalization of research, in-depth attention of scientists to the cultural and artistic life of the regions of Ukraine, which has its own specifics. Traditionally, the study of the postwar period covered issues of reconstruction, economic development, and cultural development remained on the periphery of research preferences. Izmail is no exception here. The specifics of the cultural life of this region have not received proper coverage in Ukrainian historiography. At the present stage, it distorts the understanding of values and worldviews of the population of the region, leaves the possibility of various kinds of propaganda influences. Taking this into consideration, the analysis of the cultural and artistic life of the Izmail region in 1945-1953 becomes especially relevant. Since cultural life is an extremely complex and diverse process of creative activity in all spheres of human existence and consciousness, the author considers in the article only theatrical and musical art and partly amateur art, analyzes the work of cultural and artistic institutions of Izmail region in the postwar period. The study comes to the conclusion that cultural life in the analyzed period in the region was contradictory. It was characterized by extremely weak material and technical base, lack of adequate funding and related problems, was under constant control of party and Soviet government, which considered it as a tool for forming a new Soviet identity, gradually eroding and devaluing the national culture of the region. Despite the socialist content of cultural processes, centralization and ideological pressure, the network of cultural and artistic institutions in the region was restored and significantly expanded, which allowed to raise the cultural level of the population, to acquaint it with the works of Soviet and foreign artists. The analysis of the publications of the regional newspaper «Prydunayska Pravda» made it possible to supplement the archival materials for a fuller reproduction of cultural processes in the region. The author of the article points out that such components of the cultural process as education, science, literature, cinema, fine and applied arts, the specifics of urban and rural cultural life, etc. need further in-depth study.