"Communist of Ukraine" magazine in the last year Khrushchev's "thaw"

Abstract

The presented article raises the issue of the board of the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union M. Khrushchev (1953—1964). The author's research is devoted to the last year of Khrushchev's stay. The era of Khrushchev's rule, which was easily called the "thaw" by the writer Ilya Ehrenburg, was marked by a large number of social changes. 1964 was no exception, which was the last in the political biography of M. Khrushchev. The source base for this study was the periodical of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine, the magazine "Communist of Ukraine", which is stored in the State Archives of the Book Chamber of Ukraine in the form of annual sets of notebooks. Based on the conceptual foundations of domestic historical science and applying the method of content analysis, the author studied the 1964 journals and commented on priority topics for that time, namely: the problem of the international communist movement in the context of aggravation of Soviet-Chinese relations; the question of the formation of the United Nations and the participation in this process of representatives of the Ukrainian SSR; the main aspects of the then industrial development of the USSR, in particular, the intensification of chemical, coal, iron ore, machine-building industries; development of innovative scientific directions and technologies — bionics, cybernetics, etc.; radical changes in the organization of agricultural production. Based on the elaborated general, the author analyzed the state and acceptance of the most resonant themes of humanitarian content, because 1964 was a jubilee year. It was then that the republic celebrated the 150th anniversary of the birth of T. Shevchenko, the 25th anniversary of the reunification of Western Ukrainian lands with Soviet Ukraine, the 20th anniversary of the liberation of the Ukrainian SSR from the Nazi occupiers. A sign of the times was more than a modest celebration of the 70th anniversary of the birth of M. Khrushchev, after all, announced at the twentieth Congress of the CPSU course to eradicate the cult of personality remained a "sacred cow" of the Khrushchev "thaw". This year, through the efforts of P. Tronko, spread in Ukraine the idea of a non-academic order of compiling a large encyclopedic work on historical local lore, initiating the writing of a 26-volume "History of Cities and Villages of the Ukrainian SSR."