Pokotylo A. Building the Ukrainian Armed Forces: historiography.

The thesis researches the military-historical sources, which represent the process of building the basis of the Ukrainian Armed Forces at the first stage of their building. The evaluation criteria have been developed; the completeness and authenticity of treating the historiography of legislative and normative acts which contributed to the formation of the Armed Forces of the Independent State have been established. The factors that stipulate the need to build the own armed forces in Ukraine have been determined. The range of Ukrainian scientists and military experts, who have made the most notable contribution to the coverage of various aspects of the creation of higher bodies of the military leadership, branches and arms of services of the armed forces of Ukraine have been defined. The bibliographic database of historiographical sources have been created, a number of unknown till today archival material have been introduced in the scientific circulation. The priority themes worked out the most in the Ukrainian historiography of building the Armed Forces have been explored. The topics that require further research and relate to the formation and subsequent reformation of the Armed Forces, their branches and arms of services, the provision of civilian control over their activities, as well as studying foreign experience of building and development, have been determined.