KEMEROVO REGION PERIODICALS ON THE PARTICIPATION OF THE REGION’S POPULATION IN PROTECTING PUBLIC ORDER (1960s – 1980s)

Abstract

The paperdiscusses the use of the periodical press, as one of the media for the coverage ofKemerovoregion’s social organizations policing activities in the 1960s – 1980s. In such a formulation of the problem, the topic is studied for the first time. The study is based on materials ofKemerovoregion’s periodical press and the state archive documents ofKemerovoregion. The author analyzed the objectivity of the print media, considering the methods of dealing with antisocial phenomena. The purpose of the press was to bring to the user the information about the socially dangerous abuse and combatting it them, the main task was to ‘reach’ every citizen. Print media became a sharp weapon of great power to influence the consciousness of people in the prevention of crime. Effectiveness of the fight against violators of public order depended, inter alia, on the mechanism of influencing it by means of periodicals. However, in the analyzed period, the media were an effective means of ideological influence on the population and were tightly controlled both by the country's leaders as well as by the local authorities.Kemerovoregion was no exception.