Массовые настроения и советская пропаганда в Татарской АССР в годы Великой Отечественной войны

Key words: Kazan, TASSR, Second World War, Soviet home front, National policy, Mass Sentiments, Soviet Propaganda. The work is devoted to the phenomenon of mass sentiments in the Great Patriotic War. The author makes an excursion, and singles out in the historiography of the problem two conditional periods: Soviet and post-Soviet, this division is associated with the change of ideological attitudes in historical science. To reconstruct the social reality of the Soviet rear, the author draws memories from participants and new archival materials. In the work, attempts are made to compare the views of regional historians with an outside view. In conclusion, the speaker concludes that there have not been any special studies on this issue, and the rest have concerned Kazan indirectly. Therefore, in science there remains a certain lacuna, and research of this kind will help in the reconstruction of historical reality In conclusion, the author enclosed that there are no specific topics dedicated to historiography of Political and National Problems in Kazan’. Therefore, there is a certain gap in science and given research can help in the reconstruction of historical reality.