Adamovskiy V. Deportations of Ukraine's people in the first half of the 20th century: reasons, results, ways of return to Motherland

The object of study - the activity of a party-state management of USSR and Ukrainian SSR, local imperious structures, law-enforcement structures, which accepted the concrete decisions concerning mass deportation of the peoples from territory of Ukraine, formed among the population the appropriate public idea. The purpose of study is study of the reasons, of course and consequences mass deportation of the population, concrete forms and methods of their realization, finding-out of scales specified crime actions. The methods used in the research are: problem-chronological, historical-statistical, comparative, structural-system. The practical value of the dissertation consists in use of its ideas and conclusions for preparation of the appropriate tutorials and manuals, introduction of new normative and special courses at humanitarian faculties of higher educational institutions of a different level of accreditation, formation of the legislative and normative acts rather deportation peoples, preparation of the developed program of perpetuating of memory of our compatriots by ways monumentalistic. This research shows the mechanism, reasons and consequences of mass deportations in the first half of the 20th century. Certain attention is also concentrated to the fulfillment of these processes during the World War I, when countries at war evicted great number of people through the objective and subjective circumstances. Their actions were explained by conditions, which had developed in the course of hostilities. The thesis reflects mass deportations in 1920's, mostly turned against statesmen of former political parties and organizations, nationally conscious Ukrainian intelligentsia, priesthood and the believers. The research proves that the most numerous evictions were from the late 1920's to early 1930's during the process of collectivization. Examples, given in the thesis, depict life of Ukrainians in different regions of the USSR. The tragedy of Crimean nations, their deportation from the territory of the peninsula, is reflected in this work too. Besides it, main legislative acts, which promoted return of nations to their Motherland, ways of their adaptation, are analyzed in this investigation.