Ukrainian book prints 1945—1946: reflections on the events of the military disaster

Abstract

The presented article raises the problem of the Second World War in the context of the events that took place on its main direction — the Eastern Front, where, without exaggeration, the fate of all mankind was decided. The racial doctrine of Hitler's Nazism left no chance for the physical existence of most peoples, who were treated by it as inferior and those who could only be in slavery. Thus, on May 9, 1945, perpetuated not only the victory of one military bloc over another, but also the right of the human community to its diversity and life in conditions of racial and national equality, tolerance, and humanism. This article is devoted to the problem of covering the events of the war in book prints published in the Ukrainian SSR shortly after its end. The purpose of the presented research was to conduct a content analysis of previously unused and now forgotten books of 1945—1946 editions published in the USSR and devoted to the war of 1941—1945. The study involved literature of various genres, publishing volumes and purpose, namely: official documents (state and party), scientific works, memoirs (memoirs, memoirs), epistolary, fiction and poetry. Realizing this goal, the author worked on book prints published in several publishers of the Ukrainian SSR at that time, in particular, the Ukrainian State Publishing House (State Publishing House of Ukraine), the Ukrainian Publishing House of Political Literature (Political Publishing House of Ukraine), the State Publishing House of Fiction (Lithuania), the publishing house of Odessa State University named after I. Mechnikov, the publishing house of the Dnipropetrovsk regional committee of the Communist Party of the Bolsheviks of Ukraine. Based on this work, the author came to the conclusion that the printing press of the first postwar years laid a solid foundation of a huge literary community, which for many decades determined the public attitude to the events of the Great Patriotic War.