TO THE HISTORY OF THE ACTIVITIES OF YOUTH NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS IN THE DROHOBYCH AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL AND THE DROHOBYCH OIL COLLEGE (1950–1951)

Abstract

Summary. The purpose of the article is to publish and analyze extracts from the reports on agent cases at the students of the Drohobych Agricultural School and a group of students of the Drohobych Oil College (1951) as a source for the history of functioning of the nationalist youth movement in Drohobych region, and in Ukraine in general. Research methodology – principles of scientific, objectivity, historicism, methods of external and internal critique of sources. The scientific novelty is that for the first time two hitherto unknown documents about the students of the Drohobych Agricultural School and students of the Drohobych Oil College (1951) are published and their analysis is carried out. Conclusions. Thus, the published documents (extracts from agent case reports on students of the Drohobych Agricultural School and a group of students of the Drohobych Oil College) are a real example of the work of law enforcement bodies in the search for youth nationalist organizations. They are stored in the Sectoral State Archives of the State Security Service of Ukraine (Fund 3: the fifth Department of the MGB-KGB of the UkrSSR (1935‒1959), description 246 (1953), case 4, pages 47–49, 53–55, 186–187, 191–194). The first document is an extract from a memorandum "On the results of the agency-operative work of the 5th Department of the MGB of the Drohobych region for March-April 1951" (April 28, 1951), signed by Colonel M. Moroz, the chief of the UMGB of the Drohobych region, and addressed to the Minister of State Security of the USSR, Lieutenant General M. Kovalchuk; the second one is an extract from the report "On the results of the agency-operative work of the 5th Department of the MGB of the Drohobych region for November-December 1951" (January 12, 1952) was sent to the Chief of the 5th Department of MGB of UkrSSR F. Tsvietukhin from the Chief of the UMGB of the Drohobych Region, Major General S. Kozhevnikov, and the Chief of the 5th Department of the UMGB of the Drohobych Region, Major I. Chudinov. It should be noted that the published documents are an important source for a comprehensive study of the formation and functioning of national youth organizations in general and in Drohobych region in particular. The edition retains maximum vocabulary, author’s style and editorial features of the sources. Proper and geographical names are presented without changes. Only the most obvious grammatical errors have been corrected. Each document is accompanied by a legend, indicating the place where the document is stored (archive name, fund number, descriptions, cases, pages).