Vasylchuk V. The Germans of Ukraine: Public and National Aspects ХХ – the Beginning ХХІ Century.

The dissertation research is devoted to the more than one hundred year of the reconstruction of the Germans living on the territory of Ukraine, there public adaptation and national authentication. The moral and psychological ethnic feeling is considered in the light of socio-political and socio-economic realities that were created in the conditions of the Soviet reality and independent state. The changes of the political moods during the period of the Ukrainian People’s Republic are explored on the basis of the introduced for the first time sources. The specific character of the Germans behavior in the conditions of the disasters during which they had to survive in the XX-th century, that is two world wars, revolutions, the famine, the dictatorship and the political terror, economic and social experiments of the government are reflected in the thesis.