Tkachenko V. The development of Ukrainian science in the common social and political context (20th - 30th XX century).

The thesis is dedicated to the complex and controversy period in the development of Ukrainian science that took place in social and political reality of 20th - 30th of XX century. Based on the new approaches to the analysis of historical sources, many of which were introduced into practice for the first time, the author made an attempt to give complex view on the dynamic changes that took place in the organizational system and methodological approaches determined the priorities in the domestic scientific investigations. The dynamic of social development, crucial changes in scientific vision as well as in technical progress, that became the main factor in competitive capacity of the USSR with the other world states, was analyzed. The author cast the light on the introduction of the new system of administration of soviet science aimed to highest possible contribution to the modernization of mobilizing "overtaking" type. The present thesis depicted great achievement made by Ukrainian scientists as well as dramatic trails that fell to their lot, many of whom innocently suffered caused by Stalin's mass repressions.