Huk M. Women of Ukraine in the First World War: historiography.

For the first time in the national historical science, the thesis carries out a comprehensive historiographic study of women during the First World War of 1914-1918. The author thoroughly analyses basic stages, directions and peculiarities of research on the topic. She distinguishes three historiographic periods and one sub-period: first (1914-1939), second (1939-1991) and third (1991-2019). These periods reflect the tendencies of national science in the interpretation of social, military, everyday history of war in the Russian and Austro-Hungarian empires. The author has found, systematized and revealed the potential of sources for the period of 1914-2019. She introduces into the scientific circulation a wide range of new historiographical sources that were practically not subject to historiographic processing. On this basis, key aspects of the outlined topic are identified. It has been found that a positive trend in the late 20th – early 21th centuries in this context is the systematic enrichment of a set of historiographical sources on the topic through the involvement of new documents and materials in specific historical studies of certain aspects of women's life during the First World War; there are publications dedicated to everyday life in different cities and villages, to public, charitable and medical work of both female individuals and women organizations, to the participation of women in the military formation of the Legion of Ukrainian Sich Riflemen and the army of the Russian Empire.