49/Valerii Kapeliushnyi

Valerii Kapeliushnyi

Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor,

Corresponding Member of National Academy

of Educational Sciences of Ukraine,

Chair of the Department of Ethnology and Local Lore,

Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv,

Kyiv, Ukraine

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000–0002–3552–3675 

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17721/2522-4611.2024.49.4 

DEPORTATIONS AND RESETTLEMENT MOVEMENTS IN THE

WESTERN UKRAINIAN LANDS IN THE LATE 1930s – 1950s IN THE

SCIENTIFIC WORK OF YURII MYKHAILOVYCH SOROKA

The article presents a historiographic review of the scientific work of the famous Ukrainian scientist, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor Yurii Mykhailovych Soroka, dedicated to the study of deportations, migration and other resettlement movements in the western Ukrainian lands in the late 1930s - early 1950s. Not only the most important provisions of the thesis and two thorough monographs of the scientist are characterized, but also more than three dozen of his other works, written before the defense of the thesis and in subsequent years, expanding the range and deepening the study of various aspects of his research. The basis of the historiographical review of the works of the scientist on the specified issue is a chronological approach, which takes into account the time of writing the works and their publication, as well as the growth of knowledge on various aspects of the studied problem, the transformation of Yu. Soroka's own views and approaches to its understanding. Debatable issues that remain understudied or await further reconsideration are singled out.

Key words: Yu. M. Soroka, population, western Ukrainian lands in the late 1930s–1950s, deportations, migrations, mobilization, resettlement, repression, historiography.

Received by the editorial board: 04.01.2024.

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33. Soroka, Yu. M. (2014). Trahichna dolia kholms'ko-pidlias'kykh ukraintsiv [Tragic Fate of Ukrainians in the Kholm and Podlachian Regions]. Chasopys ukrains'koi istorii [Journal of Ukrainian History]. Kyiv, 30, 155–157 [in Ukrainian].

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39. Soroka, Yu., Schebliuk, S. (2020). Nasyl'nyts'ke pereselennia pol's'koho naselennia z terytorii URSR. 1944–1946 rr. [Forced Resettlement of Polish Population from the Territory of the USSR. 1944–1946].  Hileia [Hileya]. Kyiv, 152, 61–66 [in Ukrainian].

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41. Soroka, Yu. M. (2022). Zaprovadzhennia stalins'kykh represij na zakhidnoukrains'kykh zemliakh: 1939–1941 rr. [Introduction of Stalinist Repressions in Western Ukrainian Lands: 1939–1941]. Stalins'ki represii na zakhidnykh zemliakh Ukrainy u 1939–1953 rr. [Stalinist Repressions in Western Lands of Ukraine in 1939–1953] / Baran V., Soroka Yu., Tokars'kyj V. Instytut ukrainoznavstva imeni Ivana Kryp'iakevycha NAN Ukrainy. L'viv, 6–132 [in Ukrainian].

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