THE ROLE OF MEDIA IN THE FRAMEWORK OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF ZAPORIZHZHIA OBLAST DURING THE 1943 – 1953

Keywords: manipulation, economical process, media, five-year plan, industrial estate, reconstruction

Abstract

Based on regional periodical press and archival documents, the article shows the analysis of direct media influence on the consciousness of Zaporizhzhia oblast residents in the process of economic revival in the region during the post-war decade. Applying a comparative method, variability in the submission of information on the government assignment, which rural and urban citizens in the region faced, should be noticed. It was established that components of propaganda were contained in the media materials, as well as was aimed at all residents of the oblast.

During the research, the main ways of reconstruction processes in the region through the prism of «media reality» was characterised. The main means and methods that were used by the media for mobilisation of the population to commit party and government assignments were studied. It was defined that to motivate the population to revive economic life in the oblast, the information content of mass media played an important role where the regional approach was applied. It is important to highlight that the Soviet authorities paid reasonable attention to the restoration of pre-war industrial estates of the oblast, as well as the agricultural sector that had strategic economic importance for the whole state. The attitude of the government to the population characterised by an obvious prioritisation of government interests over the personal needs of the citizens which reflected in the demands to fulfil high productive performance within short terms. Instead, the media used to avoid covering «genuine reality» news concerning the real reflection of the life of ordinary oblast citizens who suffered from famine by helping the government with material and work resources.

Being obeyed by the main party and government bodies, mass media were one of the main methods of influence on the population’s consciousness and motivation in the process of reconstruction and further economic development as in the oblast as in the country

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Published
2020-12-27
How to Cite
Kostiuk, D. (2020). THE ROLE OF MEDIA IN THE FRAMEWORK OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF ZAPORIZHZHIA OBLAST DURING THE 1943 – 1953. Zaporizhzhia Historical Review, 2(54). Retrieved from https://istznu.org/index.php/journal/article/view/920