Nadurak N. Ukrainian radical right movement (1920-1941): historiography

This paper analyzes the historiography of Ukrainian radical right movement, in particular, the UMO and OUN in 1921-1941. The state of scientific research of the problem was determined, conceptual and methodological foundations of the UMO and OUN's historiographical study in 1921-1941 were elucidated. The main groups of historiographical sources were discovered, systematized and described; the main stages of the problem's study were analyzed. Representations of the UMO and OUN's activity in the literature of Western Ukraine in the 1920-1930 and in the estimates of USSR's historians in the 1920-1941 were discovered; the negative impact of ideological and political views on the interpretation of the theme by these authors was shown. The author identified key trends in the accumulation of knowledge about the activity of the UMO and OUN in 1920-1941 years in the papers of Ukrainian foreign researchers and particularity of their interpretation of the main aspects of the problem. The contribution of modern national historiography in the study of the formation of main directions, forms and methods of the UMO and OUN's activity in the 1920-1941, the formation of the basic tenets of Ukrainian nationalist ideology, as well as prominent figures of the movement were analyzed. Modern state of the study in national scientific literature of the UVO and OUN's foreign policy objectives in the 1920-1941 and interpretation of the problem of OUN split were cleared up. The author has highlighted the range of issues which require further study and scientific interpretation.