title: Museums of the Soviet Belarus during the Khrushchev’s ‘Thaw’ (1953–1968)
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metadata.value: Huzhalouski, Alexander A.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2021-08-24T13:52:50Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2021-08-24T13:52:50Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2021-03
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metadata.value: Huzhalouski А. A. 2021. Museums of the Soviet Belarus during the Khrushchev’s ‘Thaw’ (1953–1968). The Issues of Museology 12 (1): 35–47.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu27.2021.104
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/32892
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The historical perspective allows us to take a fresh look at a complex and contradictory period
  in the development of museum affairs in the USSR, which entered into historiography under the name of Khrushchev’s ‘thaw’. Using archival sources that are part of the Ministry of
  Culture of the Byelorussian SSR record, published statistical data, as well as periodicals, the
  article attempts to show the growth of the museum network in the BSSR and trace the process
  of its profile differentiation and museum branch development during this period. Using the
  specified source base, an analysis of state policy and public initiatives in the field of museum
  work was carried out. The public discussion of the early 1960s on the role of an artist in the
  process of museum display design is considered. While listing and analysing museum innovations
  during the ‘thaw’, the author pays special attention to the legalization of the activities of
  Belarusian private collectors. The emergence of museum architecture as a material embodiment
  of socio-cultural ideas about the museum is considered separately. The transformation
  of Belarusian museums into a subject of international relations in 1953–1968 is presented as
  an important new trend in their development. Appreciating the positive changes in the life of
  museums during the ‘thaw’ period, the author points out that it was in those years that the
  subordination of all activities of Belarusian museums to the tasks of glorifying Soviet society
  at the expense of other historical periods was finally established at the normative level. All
  areas of museum activities were filled with ideological content, which reflected the general
  cultural policy, invariably pursued by the party leadership. The article significantly expands
  the museological interpretation of the ‘thaw’ era and its role in the expansion, democratization,
  and professionalization of museum activities.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: The Issues of Museology;Volume 12; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: museum
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Soviet Belarus
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Communist party and state authorities
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: society
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: museum fund
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: display
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: branch
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: artist
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: collector
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Museums of the Soviet Belarus during the Khrushchev’s ‘Thaw’ (1953–1968)
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metadata.value: Article
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