Marchenko V.O., Nikilev O.F. Everyday Life of a Post-War Ukrainian Village (Mid-1940s - First Half of 1950s): Monograph. Dnipro: LIRA, 2022. 180 P.

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to analyze the monograph of Valentina Marchenko and Oleksandr Nikilev, which is devoted to the understanding of the realities of the post-war Ukrainian village, namely, living conditions, production, the state of the homestead economy, communal and social - household aspects of everyday life, educational - educational and recreational spheres of peasant life. Based on the analysis, the originality of the research, the author's vision of the problem, the complete use of domestic and foreign sources, a wide range of oral testimonies of the participants and contemporaries of those events were determined. The study analyzed the norms of behavior, care, hopes and expectations, the conditions for the formation of life positions, mutual relations in the social society, in that complex and contradictory aspect of Ukrainian history.