Research papers of Ukrainian Soviet students 1956—1960

Abstract

The presented article is devoted to the historical-Ukrainian issues of the second half of the 1950s. It is a period of de- Stalinization, which radically changed the socio-political life of the republic and made significant adjustments in all spheres of human activity. The author's interest was focused on the scientific field, namely, research papers prepared by Ukrainian Soviet students who received higher education during the Khrushchev "thaw". Several collections of student works published on the basis of various educational institutions of the Ukrainian SSR were processed by the method of content analysis. The geography of scientific achievements of Ukrainian Soviet students, without exaggeration, is great. Judging by the periodicals preserved in the Book Chamber of Ukraine, not only the capital's, but also regional universities and institutes had powerful bases for training future scientists. The article prepared by the author includes research works of students from Kyiv, Kharkiv, Lviv, Simferopol, etc. As for the palette of scientific interests of students of the USSR, the latter covered a variety of fields of technical and humanitarian knowledge. During the study of student research in Soviet Ukraine in the second half of the 1950s, the author came to the following conclusions: 1) the dominance of purely scientific content in the research of students of the USSR in 1956—1960; 2) low rate of use of party documents in them, in general, and the lack of references to the resolution of the Central Committee of the CPSU "On overcoming the consequences of the cult of personality", in particular; 3) the obvious priority of practical summarization over general theoretical considerations. In addition, according to our author's observation, at the post-Stalinist stage of the development of Soviet Ukraine there was still parity between the Russian and Ukrainian-language universities of the USSR, which was explained by the inertial action of the pre-war policy of Ukrainization.