Propaganda Methods Research Articles

Пропагандистська конкуренція товариства «Просвіта» та Общества имени А. Духновича за русинську аудиторію Підкарпатської Русі у міжвоєнний період

This article analyzes the informational activity of two societies – “Prosvita” (Eng. Enlightenment) and The A. Dukhnovych Society among Rusinian population of Subcarpathian Rus using modern approaches to the propaganda analysis, which implies answering the questions of who, whom on, what methods and forms are used. In particular, it has been found out that both societies had similar structures, with their members being representatives of intelligentsia with Ukrainophile and Russophile views respectively. They were also joined by the representatives of emigration and local population. The Rusinian audience had a relatively low educational level, and many residents of Subcarpathian Rus could not make up their minds whether they were of Rusinian ethnicity and what religion they practiced. The main forms of informing were printed press, oral transmission and radio broadcasting. Most often, the societies used polygraphic means of propaganda, since they were the easiest to produce. Oral transmission also proved quite productive, since it did not require significant expenditures. Radio was of limited application due to lack of receiving equipment. The author’s perspective of the propaganda methods has been formed through the analysis of individual episodes, informational and visual materials about the social and political life of Carpathian Rus and the activities of “Prosvita” and The A. Dukhnovich Society. Among the most popular methods were persuasion, suggestion, manipulation, and disinformation. However, it is possible to speak about their application only conditionally, since there was no propaganda technique in its modern understanding. The representatives of the societies under analsysis acted out of their personal understanding of campaigning methods and responding to the information needs of the Rusin community.

The Images of Illegal Economical Activities and the Fight against Them in Lithuanian Press in 1938–1940

Various illegal economical activities such as speculation, moonshine production, etc. were popular subjects in the Lithuanian press of 1938–1940. Economic problems were important for the Lithuanian society during those harsh years, so these publications did their part to influence public opinion. This article focuses on the most popular narratives of illegal economical activities in the Lithuanian press of 1938–1940: 1) the Price Control Officer and his struggle against speculation; 2) propaganda methods in solving the problem of moonshine (illegal breweries); 3) other illegal economical activities (illegal medical or law practice, prostitution, etc.). In conclusion, Lithuanian authorities used mild methods against the illegal part of the economy. The Price Control Officer, one of the most popular authority figures in 1938–1940 Lithuania, used to bribe businessmen who were mixed up in speculation and to publish lists of those so called “speculators” periodically. This policy was morally doubtful because it influenced some antisemitic thoughts (as the majority of those bribed “speculators” were of Jewish descent). Police methods were not enough to reach victory against widespread moonshiners. In the summer of 1938, a high-scale propaganda campaign against moonshine was launched. Fighting other illegal economical activities was problematic due to a lack of jurisprudence and legal alternatives.

Japanese Propaganda Methods in Indonesia during the Military Occupation ：Focusing on Kitahara Takeo’s Indoneshiajin no Seikaku

Japanese Propaganda Methods in Indonesia during the Military Occupation ：Focusing on Kitahara Takeo’s Indoneshiajin no Seikaku

Japanese Propaganda Methods in Indonesia during the Military Occupation ：Focusing on Kitahara Takeo’s Indoneshiajin no Seikaku

Japanese Propaganda Methods in Indonesia during the Military Occupation ：Focusing on Kitahara Takeo’s Indoneshiajin no Seikaku

ПСИХОЛІНГВІСТИЧНІ МАРКЕРИ ДИСКУРСУ ГІБРИДНОЇ ВІЙНИ

In thesises the analysis of psycholinguistic markers of hybrid war is carried out, its verbal dimension is considered. The meaning of the term «language of aggression» is also revealed, examples of its use in Ukraine and Russia are given. The means of presenting information on Russia’s hybrid war with Ukraine have been formalized. It was determined that Russia very often uses propaganda methods of empathy and works with programmed reactions. So in order to resist the aggression of the Russian Federation, Ukraine must improve its own information field, primarily by improving the verbal component of hybrid warfare.

ПСИХОЛІНГВІСТИЧНІ МАРКЕРИ ДИСКУРСУ ГІБРИДНОЇ ВІЙНИ

In thesises the analysis of psycholinguistic markers of hybrid war is carried out, its verbal dimension is considered. The meaning of the term «language of aggression» is also revealed, examples of its use in Ukraine and Russia are given. The means of presenting information on Russia’s hybrid war with Ukraine have been formalized. It was determined that Russia very often uses propaganda methods of empathy and works with programmed reactions. So in order to resist the aggression of the Russian Federation, Ukraine must improve its own information field, primarily by improving the verbal component of hybrid warfare.

Культурно-просветительная работа Русского музея в годы войны (блокада и эвакуация)

The article discusses the methods of scientific and artistic propaganda (Museum and local history tour, lesson at the exhibition, lecture, conversation with slides). Museum employees at places of temporary storage of monuments carried out educational work among the population. Working with the audience in the Museum serves as a support for the positive state of mind of people in the conditions of intense wartime. Meeting with evacuees collections of art monuments allowed residents of Perm, Gorky, Solikamsk and other regional centers in 1941–1945 to expand their horizons, aesthetically evaluate the famous masterpieces of Russian art, which had a beneficial effect on the entire cultural climate of the provincial society. During the great Patriotic war, the main part of the art collections of the State Russian Museum was evacuated to Molotov (Perm). Paintings, sculptures, works of iconography are placed in the Perm Museum of local lore, in the Trinity Cathedral of Solikamsk. Conducting excursions and consultations at temporary exhibitions, conversations with slides are methods of scientific and educational work. This work was important and necessary for the residents of Perm. The meeting with art organized for visitors of the Museum in Perm by the staff of the Russian Museum provided great spiritual support during the great Patriotic war, which can be regarded as an unprecedented case of aesthetic education of the younger generation and spiritual support of the residents of Perm in wartime conditions. The relevance of the material presented in the article is undeniable. In the last years of the twenty-fi rst century, there have been increasing calls for a review of the role of the Soviet Army in the great Patriotic war (1941–1945). It is necessary to take responsibility for historical truth. The importance of the Victory, which brought liberation from Hitlerism not only to our Homeland, but also to the Western world, is great, and the merits are invaluable. It is necessary to preserve the truth for future generations of residents of the former Soviet space, as well as citizens of other countries. Special importance in the preservation of memory belongs to documentary sources, which include archive materials. Along with them, works of art created during the war or in the first post-war years play an invaluable role in restoring the truth.

الأُطر القانونیة المنظمة للدعایة الانتخابیة فی المملکة الأردنیة الهاشمیة وفقًا لقانون الانتخاب رقم 6 لعام 2016

يعد التأطير القانوني للدعاية الانتخابية من أهم مراحل العملية الانتخابية لکونه ينظم القوائم الانتخابية والمترشحين وکيفية الاتصال المباشر مع الجمهور المستهدف في العملية الانتخابية لعرض برامجهم بأسلوب وطرق قانونية، لذلک يلجأ المشرع عادة إلى تنظيم تلک العملية بغية ضبط وسائل وأساليب الدعاية الانتخابية، حيث أن الانتخابات تعد االمکنة المشروعة التي يبنى عليها التداول السلمي على السلطة عبر صناديق الاقتراع، وهي نتيجة طبيعية لفکرة االتمثيل والتفهم الاجتماعي لاختيار الأقدر والأکفأ للحکم، إذ بموجبها يتم اختيار من يمثل الشعب في ممارسة الحکم على المستوى السياسي أو على مستوى االوحدات المختلفة، التي لا يمکن للشعب ممارستها بنفسه، وباعتبار الانتخابات مکنة مشروعة نحو التداول السلمي على السلطة ومدخل نحو التحول إلى النهج الديموقراطي، وبذات الوقت نقل هواجس وحاجات الشعب إلى أصحاب القرار في الدولة لتحويلها إلى مخرجات سياسية واقتصادية واجتماعية تتفق مع آمال الشعب وطموحه، فضلا عن اعتبارها أداة لحل المتناقضات والصراعات داخل المجتمع من خلال التشارکية في الحکم ممن يمثلهم من النواب بحسب الأحجام السياسية لجميع القوى السياسية في المجتمع. لذلک، لزاما على المشرع الوطني اللجوء إلى تأطير وتنظيم عملية الانتخابات من حيث بداية الترشح وحتى نتيجة الانتخابات وإعلان المشرح الفائز بمساعدة السلطات العامة في الدولة من تنفيذية وقضائية لضبط وسائل وأساليب الدعاية الانتخابية، خاصة إذا ما علمنا بأن الکثير من التجاوزات غير القانونية تسود تلک الدعايات الانتخابية والتي من شأنها المساس بحقوق وحريات الغير، خاصة وأن الدستور الأردني يفرض المساواة بين المواطنين، ويفرض على الدولة أن تؤمن ذلک للجميع من المرشحين. وسؤال الدراسة هنا هو کيف أطرت ونظمت عملية الدعاية الانتخابية في قانون الانتخاب الأردني رقم 6/2016. The legal framework of electoral propaganda is one of the most important stages of the electoral process because it organizes the electoral lists and candidates and how to communicate directly with the target audience in the electoral process to present their programs in a legal manner and methods, so the legislator usually resorts to organizing that process in order to control the means and methods of electoralpropaganda, since the election is now the legitimate mechanism on which the peaceful circulation of power is built through the ballot boxes, which is a natural result of the idea ofrepresentation and social understanding to choose the most qualified and competent to govern, whereby the choiceof the most qualified and competent person is to choosethe most qualified. The people arerepresented in the exercise of government at the political level or atthe level of differentunits, which thepeople cannot exercise themselves,and considering elections as a legitimate mechanism towards peaceful circulation of power and an entry towards a transition to a democratic approach, while at the same time transferring the concerns and needs of the people to the decision makers in the state to turn them into political, economic and social outcomes consistent with the hopes and ambitions of the people, as well as considering them as a tool tosolvecontradictions and conflicts within society through participatory governance represented by representatives of the people. According to the political sizes of all political forces in society. Therefore, it is incumbent upon the national legislator to resort to framing and organizing the election process in terms of the beginning of the candidacy and even the outcome of the elections and the announcement of the winning morgue with the help of the public authorities in the state from the executive and judicial to control the means and methods of electoral propaganda, especially if we know that many illegal abuses prevail these electoral propaganda, which would prejudice the rights and freedoms of others, especially since the Jordanian Constitution imposes equality between citizens, and requires the state to ensure that this is done to all candidates. The question of the study here is how the electoral propaganda process was framed and organized in Jordan's election law No. 6/2016.

Антропология досуга женщин в ГДР

The article discusses the anthropology of women's leisure activities in the German Democratic Republic. Women's free time in a totalitarian society is defined as quasi-leisure, conventionally divided into public leisure, associated with state mass events, and personal leisure, the content of which was mainly determined by women. Factors that determine the amount of time free from labor and social activities were identified. An analysis of high informative sources, such as women's periodicals and family documentaries of the GDR, allowed to identify aspects of rationing leisure practices by the state and the nature of public response to propaganda methods. The female press is considered as a mechanism for transmitting the normative image of a woman; the content and specifics of publications on free time in various magazines are revealed. The study of family documentaries published on the Internet within the «Open Memory box» – a GDR-specific project, allowed to identify the most common and significant forms of women's leisure activities. Among them there is a unique German tradition of «Freikörperkultur», a free-body culture preserved under socialism. Such forms of leisure activities as external and internal tourism, as well as spending time in the countryside, is analyzed in the context of submission and willfulness strategies within restrictions on freedom of movement under the SED dictatorship. Particular attention is paid to the transformation of the traditional German festival culture, as well as the introduction of «new» socialist holidays, including alternative forms of life cycle rites (for example a widely-used rite of passage for youth). Components of the international image of GDR, such as the «reading country» or the «sports nation», are analyzed based on women's periodicals and family documentaries..

Methodological Issues of Cultural Evaluation in the Context of Political Prosumption

The article is devoted to the search for theoretical and methodological foundations of cultural evaluation as a new area of expert activity. There are two new elements in this study. First, while studying online visual images, a number of artistic methods are identified that can be used as criteria in the analysis and evaluation of extremist content materials. Secondly, the analysis is conducted taking into account the characteristics of the digital environment, which ensures the relevance of these criteria to modern social and cultural reality. The article shows that political prosumption creates favourable conditions for the dissemination of conflict-generating and extremist content. It is possible to counteract this destructive tendency by appealing to universally recognized values, such as the victory in the Great Patriotic War in the context of Russian history. This article suggests that civic identity should be used as the foundation of expert analysis, based on a non-alternative recognition of the heroic role of the Soviet people and rejection of Nazism ideology. In the process, the methods of Nazi ideology propaganda are revealed via examples centering on the destruction of the foundations of civic identity.
 Keywords: cultural evaluation, digital space, political prosumption, identity, value system, Nazi symbols, propaganda

Muriel Spark and the Art of Deception: Constructing Plausibility with the Methods of WWII Black Propaganda

Abstract From May to October 1944, Muriel Spark was employed by the Political Warfare Executive (PWE), a secret service created by Britain during the Second World War with the mission of spreading propaganda to enemy and enemy-occupied countries. This was a formative experience which allowed her to develop an understanding of literal truth as elusive and historically contingent—even a constructed effect—as well as an interest in fictional fabrication and deception. Drawing on an account of the methods of WWII British black propaganda, Spark’s biographical accounts, and heretofore untapped archival documents from the Political Warfare Executive Papers (National Archives), this essay analyses how Spark employs the fictional equivalent of the methods of WWII black propaganda in order to examine the creation of plausibility in her novels. It explores Spark’s deployment of verifiable facts, evidence, precise information, appropriate tone, narrative coherence, targeting, covert motives, chronological disruption and repetition to construct the key elements of fiction in her novels. I argue that such fictional strategies provide a political and moral antidote to totalitarian thinking by presenting reality as necessarily contingent, and therefore open to external contestation and democratic debate. Bringing together history, biography and literary criticism, this is the first systematic and archivally supported examination of how Spark’s work for the PWE opens up a way of rethinking her fascination with the art of deception.

METODE DAKWAH JAMAAH TABLIGH DI KERUNG-KERUNG KOTA MAKASSAR

This research is related to the Da'wah Tablig Strategy in Makassar City's Kerung-Kerung which aims to identify; (1) Da'wah Tablig method in the Makassar City Kerung-Kerung Region, (2) The effectiveness of the Da'wah Tablig method in the Makassar City Kerung-Kerung Region, (3) the opportunities and challenges of the Da'wah Tablig Region in the Makassar City Kerung-Kerung Region. The results showed that the propaganda method of Jamaah Tablig was divided into maqami practices consisting of the Deliberation Method, the Taklim Method, the Hospitality Method (Jaulah), and the intiqali practice in the form of Khuruj Fii Sabilillah (Rihlah Method). The presence of the Da'wah Tablig gave new inspiration for changes in the Kerung-Kerung region, making the community's economy grow rapidly and more prosperously marked by the swarming of traders around the mosque and became one of the trade centres in Kerung-Kerung in particular and in Makassar City in general. On the other side spiritually, the community can be influenced to come to the Jami Kerung-Kerung Mosque to participate in various Tablig Jamaah activities. The Da'wah Tablig also touches special communities such as thugs, gamblers and drug addicts. Although at first, it was undeniable that some people were not happy because of their ignorance of the Jama'at Tablig method of preaching. In addition, the challenges of the Da'wah Tablig mission also come from various problems in the family.

Linguistic Methods of Anti-Russian Propaganda ‒ a New Trend in the German Mass Media

The article reveals the specifics of constructing the image of Russia in the German mass media. Based on the study of media discourse, the positions of Russia in the context of the global information and psychological confrontation are determined. We identify markers that determine the information policy of Germany in relation to Russia, as well as linguistic means of forming the image of the country and methods of information aggression against Russian society. On the basis of headline complexes and article leads, priority topics (buzz-topics) in the media, informational reasons for referring to them, sentiment (expressive-evaluative vocabulary), directional vector were determined. The research object are German media, such as Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), Die Welt, Bild, Der Spiegel. The lexemes ″Russia″, ″Moscow″, ″Putin″, ″Kremlin″ (and synonyms) were used as the units of analysis. Relations with Syria, the United States and NATO, Ukraine, Belarus and Turkey were popular topics in the German media during the study period (2020). The analysis of the texts showed that the mostly negative media image of Russia is represented. In foreign policy, the country is presented as an invader, a military aggressor, a murderer, an enemy, and its leader, in the interpretation of the media, is an insidious, cunning schemer, a dishonest player on the geopolitical chessboard. The portrayal of leading German newspapers portrays Russia as a peripheral state, a third world country that claims to be a world power (with nuclear weapons) and a semi-dictatorial regime. In the course of the study, we used general scientific methods of cognitive and interpretive linguistic discourse analysis. In publications, even high-quality ones, metonymy, metaphors, comparisons, epithets, hyperboles are used as components of anti-Russian rhetoric. Conclusion: there is practically no positive news about Russia, the country itself is seen as the main threat to the security of the world. This requires an adequate response, a new information policy and a correction of the country’s reputation. Keywords: information attacks, media image, , enemy image, Russia, ogenda, stylistic means, semantic, discourse

Towards the “olive trees of Rome”: exploitation of propaganda devices in the Islamic State’s flagship magazine “Rumiyah”

ABSTRACTThis paper aims to contribute to understanding how the last flagship magazine of the Islamic State - “Rumiyah” - attempted to influence and manipulate Internet users. Its primary objective is to analyze the propaganda methods exploited in all thirteen issues of this magazine. In order to do so this paper utilises content analysis to investigate “propaganda devices”, a concept developed by the American Institute for Propaganda Analysis. It argues that there were four predominant groups of propaganda devices exploited in this magazine. Two of them, i.e. name-calling and glittering generalities, were utilized to create and promote an artificial, black-and-white vision of the world, composed of the “camp of kufr” (camp of disbelief) and the “camp of iman” (camp of faith), embodied by the Islamic State. The third leading propaganda method, transfer, attempted to legitimize the actions and agenda of the “Caliphate” by using the authority of not only Allah, but also the Prophet Muhammad, his companions (Sahabah), as well as selectively chosen Islamic scholars. Finally, the bandwagon served as a means of creating a sense of community between the editors and readers. Other propaganda devices, such as testimonial or plain folks, played strictly secondary roles in the narration of the magazine.

ADOLF HİTLER’İN 50. DOĞUM GÜNÜ KUTLAMALARI (20 NİSAN 1939)

Adolf Hitler, 20. yüzyıla damgasını vurmuş ve neredeyse herkes tarafından tanınan bir politikacı, Başbakan ve demagogdur. Takip ettiği başarılı propaganda usulleri sayesinde hem ülkesinde iktidara gelmiş hem de uluslararası politikada ün kazanmıştır. Bu çalışmaya konu olan Hitler’in 50. doğum günü, diğer doğum günleri gibi bir propaganda vasıtası olmuş ve güç gösterisine çevrilmiştir. Aile üyelerinin çoğunun erken ölmesi nedeniyle, 50. doğum gününde belki de ömrünün sonuna yaklaştığını düşünen Hitler, II. Dünya Savaşı’nı başlatma kararını hızlandırmıştır. Bu makalede, Hitler’in 50. doğum günü kutlamalarında Almanya’da yapılan şenlikler ve kutlamaya katılan yabancı heyetlerle Türk heyeti hakkında bilgi verilmiştir.

Perspektif Remaja Terhadap Dakwah Online Studi Empiris Pada Siswa MA Hasanuddin Siraman Kesamben Blitar

Judging from the times, we will increasingly understand that life goes fast. Good filter ability is a key indicator that everyone must have in facing this development. This article is the result of research that leads to the development of the digital world, especially in the field of online that touches almost all aspects of life. One that attracts researchers is the entry of the online world into the realm of da'wah. Conventional da'wah is done face-to-face, now has experienced many shifts and shifts through online media with the intention of facilitating access. The purpose of writing this article is to analyze adolescent perceptions about online propaganda and preaching methods that are of interest to adolescents with empirical studies of MA students Hasanuddin Siraman, Kesamben, Blitar. This descriptive-qualitative article directly observes adolescents at MA Hasanuddin about their perceptions of online da'wah and the method of da'wah that appeals to adolescents. The selection of adolescents as research subjects is because researchers find data that users of the digital or online world are the most widely held by adolescents, so that indirectly adolescents have the possibility of accessing da'wah online. The method used for this research is observation, interview, and documentation. The data obtained will then be matched using data triangulation techniques to be able to obtain data validity. The results of this study in the form of adolescent perceptions of online propaganda and propaganda methods are in demand by adolescents in this millennial era

РОЗВИТОК НОРМАТИВНО-ПРАВОВОЇ БАЗИ ІНФОРМАЦІЙНО-ПРОПАГАНДИСТСЬКОГО ЗАБЕЗПЕЧЕННЯ У ВІЙСЬКОВО-МОРСЬКИХ СИЛАХ ЗБРОЙНИХ СИЛ УКРАЇНИ В 1992–2014 РОКАХ

The article covers the results of the analysis of the legal acts of information and propaganda support in the Ukrainіаn Navy in 1992-2014. It was established that the legal regulation of propaganda was carried out on the basis of the legislation of Ukraine at that time. Legal acts became the legal basis for the functioning of information and propaganda support in the Ukrainіаn Navy in 1992-2014. The creation of the necessary regulatory framework preceded all subsequent measures to create and develop information and propaganda support, became the basis for the formation and development of structures, who were organize propaganda in the Navy, developing forms and methods of propaganda. Therefore, the activities of the military leadership in the development and outreach of propaganda were aimed primarily at providing legal support to this process.The classification of the legal framework is made and the features of its de-velop- ment are revealed. It was revealed that the issues of outreach in the Ukrainіаn Navy in 1992-2014 normalized the conceptual and directive documents of the Ministry of Defense and the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The directives and orders of the Commander of the Ukrainіаn Navy defined only certain aspects of propaganda that are important for the specific tasks of the Navy’s activities.The problems of normative regulation of information and propaganda support and tendencies in the development of the regulatory legal framework have been identified.It is concluded that the genesis of regulatory acts has become a significant fac- tor in influencing the development of information and propaganda support in the Ukrainіаn Navy in 1992-2014, since its development provided qualitative chang- es and promptly reflected the views of the leadership of the state and the Armed Forces. Therefore, the development of a regulatory framework for information and propaganda support has become a criterion for the periodization of the process of information and propaganda support development in the Ukrainіаn Navy.

«Демонізація» ворога як прийом російської імперської пропаганди в роки Першої світової війни

The article deals with the main features of creating the negative image of the enemy by the Russian imperial authorities among the population of the Ukrainian lands of the Right Bank of Ukraine in 1914–1917s. The relevance and current state of scientific development of the problem are indicated in the article as well. It is found that during the war, the Russian Empire authorities were aware of high importance specific information campaign as a successful method of struggle. And one of the key areas in this context was connected with the negative image of the Germans and their allies. For this purpose, the authorities, through various mechanisms of informational influence on the society, in practice using of such method of propaganda as “demonization”, whose main task was not simply to form a negative image of the enemy, but to transform it into the plane of religious and dogmatic confrontation of good with evil and the collision of two worlds: Russian as civilized and German as barbaric. The key ideas of the method were: Germany, led by William II, the main culprit of the war; the German army and its allies committed immoral acts, manifested by numerous “atrocities” against civilians and prisoners of war; the Germans and their allies are nothing but absolute evil and the barbarians of the twentieth century, who seek to destroy the civilized world and to enslave free nations. During the war, such theses were not just widespread in society, but became a mass product of the Empire’s propaganda.

Conspiracy Theory as a Working Method of Political Propaganda

The paper Conspiracy theory as a working method of political propaganda deals with using of conspiracy theories by the specific (pro-Kremlin) kind of propaganda to spread certain ideological content. In the paper, the conspiracy theory The European Union organizes migration to Islamize Europe is analyzed. In the paper the internal logic of this conspiracy theory is revealed. The main objective of the paper is to analyze the argumentation strategies of this conspiracy theory and find out what kind of binarities analyzed conspiracy theory uses to legitimize its construction of reality. For the text analysis, a discourse analysis is chosen. This method allows me to analyze key discursive patterns characteristic for the set of collected news. The empirical part composed by the analysis of the research material follows the theoretical part of the paper, where the concept of conspiracy theory as the type of the discursive construction of reality and as a part of the political propaganda is presented. Results of research show that analyzed conspiracy theory disseminates concrete ideological views in favor of Eurosceptical, populist forces.

ЗАРОДЖЕННЯ ТА РОЗВИТОК СПОРТИВНОГО ТУРИСТИЧНОГО РУХУ В ЗАХІДНІЙ УКРАЇНІ (СЕРЕДИНА ХІХ – СЕРЕДИНА ХХ СТ.)

The purpose of the article is to clarify the process of emergence of sports tourism in Western Ukraine and to study the factors that positively influenced on this process. Methods. The investigation based on the use of general scientific and special research methods. General scientific methods include descriptive method, method of analysis and synthesis, generalization and abstraction, comparison and analogy. Results. It was found that the development of tourism was associated with the natural interest of society, which intensified ethnographic and cultural research. In the process of their implementation, new routes were laid, knowledge about the geography of the region was deepened, and the tourist infrastructure was formed. Physical preparation for the hikes took the form of scouting, which included the formation of skills of survival in natural conditions, the ability to navigate the terrain, set up a tent, light a fire, cook, and so on. The form of such training proposed by the British officer quickly gained popularity throughout the world and in particular in Western Ukraine. Gradually, sport tourism is becoming widespread. Overcoming financial, material and political difficulties, sports, local history and tourist societies during their existence have worked out numerous forms and methods of popularization and propaganda of Ukrainian history, sports, nature and culture using means of tourist and local history activities. Their work experience convincingly indicates the need for coordination of the activities of individual fans of tourism and travel, the concentration of efforts aimed at studying the recreational and cognitive potential of the native land. The activity of tourist and local lore societies and clubs has practically proved that one of the main factors of youth education is knowledge of one's own history and preservation of the nature of the native land, combination of physical development with patriotic and ecological education. The scientific novelty is that the factors of sports tourism development in the western region of Ukraine were clarified. The relationship between local history movement and sports tourism was determined. The some facts from the history of the local lore movement were indicated. The events testifying to the development of scouting in the western Ukrainian lands were revealed. The pan-European context of the process of sports tourism development and local lore movement was determined. The practical significance lies in the promotion of sports tourism as a form of relaxation and recreation, exposing the potential of scouting for sports training and patriotic education of youth, updating old and developing new tourist routes based on the experience of past tourist clubs.