Dyakiv V. "The Folklore of Miracles" in under-Soviet Ukraine at 1920s.

The thesis analyses Ukrainian folklore poetical and prose texts on the subject of wonders, composed or devoted on occasion of actual events in the Soviet Ukraine of 20-s, in particular for religious people's movement and thereafter related to it alarming society mood. Basing on the scientific-methodological experience of Ukraine and foreign study of folklore the author of thesis ascertains the genesis of these works, studies its relationship with concrete events as well as the compiling and functioning, plot, content and artistic and stylistic trends (the peculiarity of topic and movement of folklore text as well as the trend of reality depiction). The study displays the folklority of the majority of texts referred to this brand-new art which was one of the brightest reflections of people's religiousness and antiregime moods in the Soviet Ukraine of 20-s.