Informal Communication of Representatives of the Ukrainian Emigration of Interwar Czechoslovakia (1921–1939)

Abstract

Informal communication in the Ukrainian emigration environment of the interwar Czechoslovak Republic is, first of all, rumours and gossips. Rumours and gossips are a special subtype of human communication that develops regardless of attitude toward it. Rumours and gossips are also a substantive phenomenon of the functioning of information. Rumours and gossips affect the self-expression of moods and public opinion. Rumours and gossips are a channel for controlling moods and public opinion. Rumours and gossips in the Ukrainian anti-Bolshevik emigration of the interwar Czechoslovak Republic were considered not only through the prism of different information, but also through different levels of communication, which marked own and others, helped them to adapt. If rumours were the most common channel of informal communication among the Ukrainian interwar Prague emigration, then gossips mainly concerned those who had pronounced hobbies, defects in appearance or behaviour.