Starchenko M. The Polical System of the Soviet Ukraine and Its Transformation in the 20-30th years of the XX th century: Historiography

Thesis is devoted to the historiographic analyses of the formation of the political system of the Soviet Ukraine in the 1920th-1930th years. The political system of the Soviet Ukraine in the 1920th-1930th years is reflected in the large complex of historiographic sources, that includes popular and propagandist publications of the 1920th-1930th years, the first dissertations of the end of the 1940th the beginning of the 1950th, methodological and historiographic works of the 1960th the first part of the 1980th years with the limited usage of the archival sources, modern historiographic discursse. The historiographic analyses of the literature about the role of the bolshevist party in the formation of the totalitarian regime, the councils as the support of an anti-democratic regime are given, the main tendencies in the native and foreign historiography about the intergrowth of an party and state apparatus and the transformation of the trade unions into the "bringing belts" from the authority to the masses are investigated. The transformation of the NK-SPU-NKIA to the punitive bodies of the state, the formation of the mechanism of the political terror in the Soviet Ukraine in the 1920th-1930th years is traced in the historiographic area.