CHILDREN AND TEENAGERS IN THE COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGNS IN CHERHIHIV REGION (EARLY 1930s)
The purpose of the article is to describe the participation of children and adolescents in the agitation and propaganda of the communist totalitarian regime ideas, as well as to analyze the specific features of the children's propagandistic literature and involvement of children in the repressive actions of the. The principles of historicism, objectivity, systematism and complexity were used in the article. The research is based on the micro-historical method. Through the comprehensive analysis of the sources for Chernihiv region history of the 1930s the authors reconstructed the social development of the mentioned period and defined its distinctive characteristics of Chernihiv region. Scientific novelty of the study includes the complex analysis of the problem of children's involvement into the propaganda campaigns of the communist totalitarian regime during the studied period. Conclusions. "Children's" propaganda in the early 1930s in Chernihiv region correlated with the general ideologemes of the Ukrainian SSR, but its specific features were connected with the social and economic development of the region. The propaganda for children and adults touched on the same topics (sowing campaign, grain procurements, investing into savings offices, elections, anti-religious movement, fighting with nationalism, etc.), but their styles were different. Children took part in the political economic campaigns of the communist regime both on the "ideological front"and on the kolkhoz fields, working together with adults. At the same time, children were intensively militarized, on the one hand, through the military preparation for a possible war in the nearest future, and, on the other hand, through the general militarization of everyday life. Organizations of Osoaviakhim (OAH) and pioneers' movement coordinated propagandistic work among the young generation. Active ideological work was also conducted at schools; however, not all teachers sincerely supported Bolshevik mottos. Moreover, communist totalitarian regime shaped the ...