Ukrainisation in the Soviet educational policy in the Far East of the USSR (1922-1930)

Over the last decades Russian and international historians (including Ukrainian) have been paying significant attention to the Soviet national policy in the 1920s. The Ukrainian issue, the formation of the Ukrainian statehood and the national culture policy have become an integral part of research. The Soviet national policy towards Ukrainians had two directions. The first was the Ukrainisation of the economic, social, administrative and cultural spheres in the territory of Ukraine as a method of formation of the nation and creation of Soviet national statehood. The second was the Ukrainisation of the Ukrainian national minority in republics and regions of the Soviet state and outside Ukraine. Further studies are needed regarding the policy in the sphere of national processes management and inclusion of interests of the national minorities during different stages of the USSR. It is of great scientific interest to study the mechanism for implementation of principles of Soviet national policy in different regions. The paper considers the regional policy of the Bolsheviks in the 1920s in the territory of the Far East from the perspective of education, the status of the Ukrainian language and implementation of equality of the Ukrainian population through teaching at schools using the Ukrainian language. The author analyses the process of Ukrainisation, its regulatory framework, organisational structures, inclusion of interests of the Ukrainians from the Far East and personnel policy in the preparation of teachers for Ukrainian schools.

Keywords

Authors

References