Periodicals of the Ussr in 1950 s: the Specialties of Forming, Function and Context

In the article Soviet Ukrainian periodicals is considered as a mass historical source which helps to study sociopolitical, economical and cultural life in the USSR (in 1950 th). The common tendencies of the functioning of USSR periodicals in 1950 th were clarified; the themes and the content of periodical materials were defined. A significant array of newspaper publications obtained in the analysis of the Soviet Ukrainian press was introduced into scientific circulation, on the basis of which the main aspects and forms of development of socio-political, socio-economic and cultural life of the Ukrainian SSR have been determined. The data obtained due to the comprehensive characterization of information materials allowed us to reconstruct the most important events and phenomena of Ukrainian society. The periodical of the Ukrainian SSR is presented as a rich event-factological phenomenon, as an important factor of Soviet development. Published laws, decrees and other official documents of the republican and local state institutions of legislative and executive power, materials on the activities of party bodies and public organizations in the field of politics, economy and culture are of particular interest. In general, the newspaper periodicals of the 1950 th, taking into account certain historical conditions of its functioning, its ideological orientation, are an important systematized and chronological source of study of the socio-political, socio-economic and cultural life of Ukrainian society during the liberalization of the Soviet regime.