DEPORTATIONS OF THE POPULATION OF THE UKRAINIAN SSR IN THE 1920s — IN THE EARLY 1950s: HISTORIOGRAPHICAL ASPECT

The main achievements of the modern domestic historiography to the study of the deportation policy of the Communist-Soviet regime concerning diff erent categories of the population of Ukraine during the period are analysed. The proposed article is based on such fundamental principles of historical research as scientifi objectivity and historicism. Source base: monographs, dissertations, investigation published during 2000–2017 in specialized scientifi c publications, proceedings of the conferences, scientifi c and documentary collections. The analysis of the sources made it possible to determine the peculiarities of the modern historiographical process in independent Ukraine, to reveal the main achievements and to outline the prospects for further studies of this problem. It is established that the researchers have determined stages, causes, size and consequences of the deportation policy of the Communist-Soviet regime concerning diff erent categories of the population of the Ukraine in the 1920s — in the early 1950s. Research of Ukrainian historians, who specialize in this issue, shows that this form of repressions of the Soviet state during the period have focused on suppressing all forms of resistance, transforming the national profi le in a certain area of Ukraine and modeling social processes. The scientifi c novelty is in the creation of an integral picture of the historiography of the deportation policy of the Communist-Soviet regime concerning diff erent categories of the population of the Ukraine in the 1920s — in the early 1950s.