SOURCES OF RESEARCH IN THE HISTORY OF NATIONALIST ORGANIZATIONS OF THE UKRAINIAN DIASPORA (MID-1940s – EARLY 1990s)
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https://doi.org/10.35774/gsip2025.02.095Keywords:
foreign Ukrainian studies, nationalist organizations, Ukrainian diaspora, archival sources, periodicals, source baseAbstract
The article is devoted to the analysis of the source base for the study of the history of nationalist organizations of the Ukrainian diaspora (mid-1940s - early 1990s), determining its structure and information potential. The author suggests a systematization of sources by origin and a division into three large groups: 1) sources created by Ukrainian nationalist organizations; 2) sources of the Ukrainian diaspora (non-nationalist); 3) documents of Soviet state bodies.
It is noted that it is important to use archival materials of the Central State Archive of Public Associations and Ukrainian Studies, the Branch State Archive of the Security Service of Ukraine and the Archive of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists of the Ukrainian Information Service in London in combination with periodicals, published sources and electronic information resources for a thorough and reliable reconstruction of the structure of the nationalist movement outside Ukraine, the study of its ideological foundations and main areas of activity. It draws our attention to the need of critical analysis of sources, taking into account the subjectivity of their content, which is associated with a certain worldview paradigm and ideological confrontations in which the creators of historical sources were. To avoid a one-sided interpretation of historical facts, the researcher should compare information from three sources: from nationalist organizations, from other associations of the Ukrainian diaspora with which they interacted, and from the Soviet authorities with which they were in opposition.
It is emphasized that the fundamental sources for the study are the official program documents of nationalist organizations, which were issued by them as a result of the activities of the governing bodies. The documents set out the ideological foundations of the nationalist movement, outline the main goals of the organizations’ activities and methods of their implementation.
The significant potential of periodicals as sources for the study of nationalist organizations is emphasized. Publications allow filling in the information gaps that have arisen due to the unevenness of documentary sources. Periodicals provide an opportunity to study in more detail such aspects of the history of nationalist organizations as publishing activities, commemorative practices, political actions and the transformation of ideology.
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