Kravchenko M. The activities of Ukrainian nationalist political movements in the late 1980s - early 2000s in the memoir sources.

The dissertation is devoted to reflection in the memoirs sources the activity (but not ideological positions) of the ukrainian nationalist political movements of the late 1990s - early 2000s years. The circle of studied movements restricted to the three criterions: an ideological position, being in the form of network structures (movement) and independent participation in the political processes at the national level. So, it is devoted only about memoirs relating to the history of Ukrainian National Assambly - Ukrainian People's self-defense, Social-National party of Ukraine and "The State independence of Ukraine". Memoirs sources which was discovered during the working for dissertation was classified by two criterions - authorship (memoirs of nationalist leaders, memoirs of ordinary activists and "not nationalist" memoirs) and form (issued in text form and recorded on video). The paper analyzes the specificity of publications memoir sources; it traced patterns forming information potential of memoirs; dissertation investigated features of encoding information in the memoir sources; it defined information opportunities of memoirs and the degree of completeness of reflection in them of ukrainian nationalist political movements of the late XX - early XXI century. The most informative memoirs have identified the memories of nationalist leaders, since the authors of these memoirs, by the nature of their organizational position, are the most informed of potential authors. Nationalist leaders (unlike ordinary activists and third-party observers) cover not only the history of Ukrainian nationalist movements, but also unfulfilled plans, motivations, and other details that are not available to other authors. However, it is the memories of nationalist leaders that are the most subjective and over-enthusiastic sources that require careful analysis and criticism. The unevenness between the number of memoirs of UNA-UNSO executives (two separately published collections of memoirs and a lot of separate publications) and the memoirs of the leaders of the DSU and SNPU (only a few separate publications) was identified immanently unequal between the potential and the scope of UNA-UNSO (participation in military conflicts abroad , numerous power political confrontations in Ukraine, participation in para-revolutionary events of the UBC, etc.) and others of nationalist parties. That is exactly what should be explained by the fact that from the memoirs published today, ordinary nationalist activists, there are only memoirs of the UNA-UNSO activists. "Non-nationalist" memoirs make up relatively small (with nationalist memories) a small amount of information to study the history of Ukrainian nationalist movements at the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century, but they cover a number of interesting details and, equally important, as a whole, a series of memoirs with a "nationalist" authorship.