Політичні чинники у залученні студентської молоді Донбасу до науково-дослідної діяльності (1955 – 1985 рр.)

Abstract

The foreign policy and internal policy factors in USSA, which influence for involving Donbas students youth in scientific and research work were analyzed. Topicality of the article is explained by the fact that in the mid-1950s – the mid-1980s this is a period when the frames of the information society are laid in the USA, Japan and later in the Western Europe countries. The process was based on the refocusing from main industries to the development of high technology. If in the West this process started from below but in the USSR it was launched from above, politicizing research work and attracting more people to it. Higher educational establishments from the USSR have faced with difficult task not only educate, but also inculcate the skills of scientific creativity. In this period Donbass was an industrially developed region of the Soviet Union with a high concentration of population. Mass of enterprises, first of all, heavy industry contributed to the founding of many technical institutes here and high population density contributed to the development of a network of humanitarian universities. It was found, that students’ scientific companies, which have worked in the sector of social sciences, were most popular. The work results of such companies used for ideological education of state population. It was found, that the most popular were technical clubs SSC. It was proved, that USSA tried to risethe state competitiveness in military and politic competition with West, involving the students youth to technical creation.