Personality formation in the 1960s–1980s: the soviet russification policy

In the aritcle there have been defined the Russification processes influence, in particular, the prerequisites and the consequences for the Soviet personality formation. The party nomenclature made an attempt to transform the Soviet citizen’s consciousness of that time owing to the policy of the so-called “education of the masses”. The total Russification, linguistic and cultural transformations and the leveling of the national achievements of the peoples of the Ukrainian SSR led to a complete breakdown of the individuals’ consciousness. The Soviet ideologists imposed a new reality on the population. Hence, the study on the language issue is of the utmost importance. Since Russian acquired the status of the “language of all-Union communication”, fluent proficiency and, accordingly, its learning opened up certain prospects for the population. There was the transformation regarding the national identity of the population of the Soviet Ukraine as a result of the Russification processes spread in the scientific and educational sphere. The above-mentioned trends only intensified due to the emergence of television and radio broadcasting. Owing to television and radio broadcasting, it became much more convenient to control the consciousness of the broad masses. The above-mentioned state of affairs led to an inferiority complex appearance among the ethnic groups, who were living in the territory of the Soviet Union of that time. Such trends had a particularly negative impact on the Ukrainians’ self-identification manifestations, who were forced to adapt to the new reality. Any manifestations of the Ukrainian linguistic, cultural and national identity were equated with the “bourgeois nationalism” and pluralism of opinions under the new conditions of existence, which further only increased the pressure of the party nomenclature on the Ukrainian-speaking population of the republic. Hence, the study on the Russification processes influence on the formation of a new type of personality in the Soviet Ukraine in the 1960s–1980s is topical. The issue on the Ukrainian people’s national identity transformation requires further in-depth analysis under the conditions of the modern Russo-Ukrainain War. In this context, the study of Russification as a key factor in the breakdown of Ukrainian identity acquires significant importance.