Yakubova L. The ethnical minorities of Soviet Ukraine and the state authority: the dynamic of the social-economical, political and cultural transformations (1921 - 1935).

The dissertation is a systematic scientific historical investigation of the relation between the ethnical minorities of the USSR and the state authority during the policy of corenization. The domestic and the foreign historiography as well as the sources which become the basis of the economical, political and cultural life of ethnical communities in the Soviet Ukraine, its social structure, geography of localization, the peculiarities of political-legal status, place and role in the socio-economic, political and cultural life of the USSR were investigated. The way of the Soviet socio-economic transformations in the villages of the ethnical minorities and the policy of socialist reconstruction of their social structure were traced. The author investigated the history of national administrative territorial units, the problems and the peculiarities of their place in the system of the Soviet authority. The political-legal status of ethnical minorities in Ukraine at a different stage of its realization in the context of the policy of ukrainization and the history of anti-Soviet political parties and organizations, as well as the forms of the civil protest to the Bolshevik policy were exposed. The special attention was paid to the circumstances of the cultural life especially as for function of the education system, cultural establishments, the press, book production, internal development of national languages in the context of process of languages modernization etc. The perspectives of the consequences of realization Bolshevik doctrine of national liberation during the transition period in the system of legal, political, social possibilities and limitations are analyzed.