УКРАЇНСЬКІ, ПОЛЬСЬКІ, ЄВРЕЙСЬКІ УЧИТЕЛІ ТА УЧНІ ДРОГОБИЧЧИНИ ЯК ОБ’ЄКТ РАДЯНСЬКИХ РЕПРЕСІЙ (1939 – 1941 РР.)

Abstract

The article examines the use of repression by Ukrainian authorities in 1939 – 1941 against Ukrainian, Polish and Jewish teachers and students in Drohobych. The methodology of the study is based on the principles of historicism, systematic, scientific, verification, authorial objectivity, moderate narrative constructivism, as well as the use of general scientific (analysis, synthesis, generalization) and special-historical (historical-genetic, historical-typological, historical-systemic). The scientific novelty of the article is that for the first time materials concerning teachers and students of educational institutions of the Drohobych region of Ukraine as victims of the Soviet totalitarian regime were synthesized.It has been investigated that representatives of the Soviet authorities mistrusted local teaching, which was subjected to considerable ideological-propaganda and repressive pressure. In addition to peer-review (“development”), bullying, arrests and deportations were used against teachers and students in general schools. The target of Soviet repression became Ukrainian and Polish teachers and students who carried out “anti-Soviet activities” both in the form of agitation and through participation in underground organizations. Jewish students and teachers also participated in the anti-Soviet underground, most often joining Polish organizations and groups. It is summarized that over 60 students and almost 40 teachers – Ukrainians, Poles, Jews of Drohobych region became the object of Soviet repression (persecution, arrests and deportations) in 1939 – 1941.