Davydiuk Ruslana

Archive - criminal cases as a source for studying the history of Ukrainian political emigration in the Volyn Voivodeship

Section: Historiographical and sources of research

Abstract: The goal is to investigate the personification and informational potential of archivе-criminal cases as a source for studying the history of the inter war Ukrainian political emigration in the Volyn Voivodeship, and to trace the Soviet repressive policy towards its representatives.Methodology and methods. To achieve this goal, we used biographic, problem-historical, search methods, as well as the method of microhistory, verification of sources and historical reconstruction. In preparing a scientific article, the author used a prosopographic approach.Findings. An important source for studying the history of inter-war Ukrainian political emigration in the Volyn Voivodeship is the complex of archivеcriminal cases (ACS), instituted by the NKVD authorities for its participants after 1939. An impartial analysis and verification of these cases made it possible to clarify the historical reconstruction and personify the figures of the inter-war political emigration in region, partly follow their fate, recreate a wide panorama of employment in the Volyn Voivodeship, complement the picture of public political activity, both during the Ukrainian Revolution of 1917–1921, and in the interwar period. The informational potential is saturated with hand-written testimonies, autobiographies of political emigrants, which allow us to more fully recreate the mosaic of past events, demonstrate Polish reality in Volhynia through the eyes of a specific person.The AKC complex on the leaders of the UPR and UD illustrates the mechanisms of state terror through the fate of a person, allows us to understand the scale of repression against this category of people and conclude that in 1939–1941. The environment of Ukrainian political emigration in the territory of Western Volhynia was eliminated.

Keywords: archivе-criminal cases, Ukrainian political emigration, Volyn Voivodeship, "Sovietization", political repression, NKVD.

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• Davydiuk Ruslana (Rivne State University of Humanities, Rivne, davrus63@gmail.com) ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0485-5121

Cite:
Davydiuk Ruslana (2019). Archive - criminal cases as a source for studying the history of Ukrainian political emigration in the Volyn Voivodeship. From archives of VUChK–GPU–NKVD–KGB, ( 2 (52)) 336-356. (In Ukrainian). doi: https://doi.org/10.15407/vuchk2019.02.336

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