PUBLICATION OF THE KYIV-PECHERSK LAVRA IN THE CONTEXT OF THE CENSORSHIP POLICY OF THE SOVIET GOVERNMENT (1917-1926)

Abstract

. In the context of the formation of a democratic society, there is a growing need to ensure access to information resources, as modern and those that fell into special funds during the Soviet era. The Orthodox Church suffered irreparable losses during the years of political terror. The revival of religious life in Ukraine will actualize the popularization of church history, culture, traditions, the return of repressed names, and printed publications. In this context, it is of considerable interest to research the censorship policy of the Soviet government in the publishing industry. Analysis of the content, forms, methods, and aftermath of Soviet censorship of printed publications in Ukraine will contribute to a qualitatively new level of knowledge of church history, publishing, museums, archives, will provide an opportunity to return from religious funds banned religious literature as a source of important information. Coverage of censorship policy on church publications will help to reconstruct the degree of its influence on the spiritual component of the Ukrainian people. The subject of scientific research is the process of the formation of political censorship of printed materials in Ukraine, in particular religious works published by the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra. The methodological basis of the research was the general provisions of the theory of cognition, based on the principles of historicism, dialectics, systematic, logic. In the process of working on this issue, general scientific methods were used: typology and classification (during the research of the source base), retrospective (to identify the role of censorship at different stages