Tron A. Ukrainian Central Committee Activities in the General Government: the Humanitarian Sphere.

The thesis is dedicated to the study of the activities in the humanitarian domain of the Ukrainian Central Committee (UCC) – the sole Ukrainian legal organization in the territory of Zakerzonia and District of Galicia during the Nazi occupation. In her thesis, the author established the main stages (1940s-1980s; 1991-2020) in the evolution of the historiographical discourses on the matter in question and identified the specific features of this development at each of them. The author has also systematized different sets of sources and delineated the information potential of each of the selected groups of documents and materials. The guiding methodological foundation underlying the work are the principles of objectivity, reliance on historical sources, comprehensiveness and historicism. The implementation of research tasks was made possible by virtue of the use of general scientific, general historical (historical-chronological, problem-chronological, historical-genetic, historical-comparative and synchronous) and source study methods (bibliographic and archival heuristics and source criticism). In the work, the author analysed the formation of the management structure of cultural, educational and sports areas of life of the Ukrainian population in the General Government during the changes of the forms of the representation of Ukrainians prior to occupation authorities (national committees, the Ukrainian Stanytsia, Ukrainian relief committees). She focuses on the influence of those organisations on the development of the UCC structure and the adaptation in the work of UCC units of the approaches espoused by national educational, sports and charitable societies of the late 19th - early 20th centuries.