DOI:10.18503/2658-3186-2022-6-4-35-40
Abstract. The wall newspapers are the integral part of the Soviet history. Their research is currently receiving an accurate consideration. These historical items are viewed through the prism of local and everyday history, as well as mobilization and propaganda processes of the past times. Researchers pay the major attention to the 1920s, less often to the 1930s. The source for studying the problem of the wall printing development at the Magnitogorsk steel works was its own large-circulation newspaper «Magnitogorsk Metal», which was the curator of the wallpapers and the working correspondents’ movement. The wall newspapers are credited with functions to educate as well as to develop and raise the Soviet people creative potential. The Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works was no exception in this respect. The growth of wall newspaper printing practically coincides with the stage of construction and formation of a metallurgical plant. The wall newspapers published by the editorial working boards and with the help of working correspondents were not an inert phenomenon, but were adjusted to the vital tasks set to the plant. One of these opportunistic phenomena was the leaflets-newspaper – «lightning» – a kind of a movable type of the wall newspapers. The period of their existence is short and overlaps with the time when the workers mastered the main capacities of the metallurgical giant. At the same time, «lightning» leaflets played a key role in this process. In addition, «lightning» served as the expansion of another wall newspaper category – «Crocodiles», which, like «lightning», used to be a dynamic form of the wall newspapers, but instead of textual, often instructive, educational and inspiring information, they would contain a satirical caricature. The change of the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works tasks led to the fact that the «lightning» practically exhausted its potential and disappeared as a form of the wall newspapers.
Keywords: wall newspaper, Magnitogorsk, periodicals, «lightning», metallurgical plant, workers, Stakhanov movement.
Author:
Niva V. Chernova, Associate Professor, Candidate of History, Associate Professor of the Department of world History, Nosov Magnitogorsk State Technical University (NMSTU), Magnitogorsk, Russia; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
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For citation
Chernova N. V. Newspaper Leaflets-«Lightning» at MMK in the Pre-WAR Period (on the Materials of «Magnitogorsk Metal» Newspaper), Gumanitarno-pedagogicheskie issledovaniya [Humanitarian and pedagogical Research], 2022, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 35-40.