Litovchenko T. Military-defensive activiti Ukrainian Society of the Red Cross in 1918-1939.

In dissertation for the first time in a domestic historiography the systematization of the functioning historic graphic and archival base of a problem of research is carried out. It is entered into the scientific reference a significant file of unknown before archival materials and documents. Historical conditions of creation and development of the Ukrainian Societe of the Red Cross in 1918 are determined. The reasons are established on the basis of that directing bodies of the Soviet authoriti decide to use the Organization of the Red Cross for protection of the state. Tasks in military-defensive activiti of a societi are determined at the organization of military-sanitary training the population and on the organization of cooperation with Workers-and-Peasants Red Army. Тhe positive and negative moments of sch activity are determined.