ANTISEMITISM IN SOVIET UKRAINE: ORIGINS, CONTENT, CONSEQUENCES. HISTORIOGRAPHY OF THE PROBLEM

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to analyze and systematize the scientific literature on the study of various aspects of Stalin's state policy of anti-Semitism implemented on Ukrainian lands in the Soviet era. Methodology. The study used general scientific and special historical methods of scientific knowledge. This made it possible to study and generalize the historiography of anti-Semitism in the Soviet period of national history. Scientific novelty. For the first time, modern studies of the phenomenon of Soviet anti-Semitism in the Ukrainian territories are systematized on the basis of the thematic principle. The reasons that complicated the process of researching the history of Ukrainian Jews in the Soviet period are analyzed. Conclusions. In modern historiography, the Jewish issue had to fight for its "place under the sun". The activation of researchers' attention to Judaica, the history of Jews and the Holocaust is associated with the 80-90s of the 20th century. Since the process of formation of Ukrainian historiography was just beginning in the 1990s, the Jewish theme did not immediately become its component. In recent years, the largest number of publications that have appeared in Ukraine are devoted to the problems of the Holocaust and Baby Yar, as its personification. Why was the Holocaust possible? Why did the choice of assimilation strategy not become salvation for the Jews? How did anti-Semitic sentiments grow in the conditions of Stalinist authoritarianism and why do they remain viable at the everyday level? Reflections, searches for answers to these and other questions are presented in modern Ukrainian and foreign historiography, some of them remain open, which preserves prospects for further research.