SOCIAL COMMUNICATION AND MASS ATTITUDES OF THE WARTIME(ON ARCHIVAL MATERIALS OF NOVGOROD REGION)

Abstract

The article is devoted to the analysis of social communications and public behavior models of the population of the Novgorod land during the great Patriotic war. The main source was the archive documents placed in the 3rd volume of the collection "the land of Novgorod in the era of social upheaval, 1941-1945". The study of the published sources with the involvement of methodological approaches of domestic and foreign historical science enabled to formulate and justify the concept assuming the Soviet society of wartime to be a traditional one, but using technology of modern to protect their own future. Novgorod land can be considered to be an example of a typical model of social communications of the USSR in the period of 1941-1945. In the final conclusion the authors insist on the need to update the successful historical experience for the development needs of Russia in the present and in the historical perspective.