Cultural and educational activities in rural areas as a factor in increasing the educational and cultural level of the South Ural region population in the post-war period

The research highlights the cultural and educational life in rural areas in the post-war period from 1945 to 1953 by a case study of Chelyabinsk, Chkalov, and Kurgan regions located in the South Ural. The author examines the activities of such cultural institutions as clubs, cultural centers and others through the prism of intensive ideological campaigns, the apogee of the Stalinism and the Cold War. The paper proved that the party instructions of the Bolshevik Central Committee and Stalin personally had a significant impact on public opinion, everyday life, interests, preferences, cultural leisure of ordinary Soviet people of South Ural villages in a strictly specified ideological context. Despite these post-war hardships, the villagers raised their cultural and professional level and participated in amateur performances. In conclusion, the author emphasizes the uniqueness of the Soviet outreach practices as exemplified by three South Ural regions that can be useful for modern Russia.