Bibliographic Index "History of Ukraine": Reflection of the National Liberation Movement, Unification and «Liberation» of Ukrainian Lands in the 20–50-s of the 20-th century

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to find out the accordance the titles of the structure parts of the scientific auxiliary bibliographic index (annual edition) «History of Ukraine» for the years 2000–2019, the content of the descriptions of the works presented in it, es well of the historiography, and legislation of Ukraine on the questions of the national liberation struggle of the Ukrainian people, reunification and liberation of Ukrainian lands in the 20s–50s of the XX century. Research methodology: the principles of historicism, objectivity, systematics and comprehensiveness were applied, as well as – general methods of scientific research – analysis, synthesis, comparison. Scientific novelty: for the first time, an attempt was made to show the inconsistency of the titles of separate subsections and rubrics in the content of the bibliographic index «History of Ukraine» for the years 2000–2019 with the titles of the descriptions of the researches which presented in it. Conclusions. The structure of the bibliographic index «History of Ukraine» does not have a subsection or rubric on the history of the national liberation struggle of the Ukrainian people in the 20th century, while in the manual presents many descriptions of researches on this topic. Simultaneously, the bibliographic edition contains structural parts, the titles of which reflect Soviet historiography and propaganda due to the use the words-ideologemes: «liberation» and «reunification» which had already been refuted by modern researchers as the «expulsion» and «unification» or «joining». Therefore, bibliographers should take into account he dominant titles of the submitted descriptions of works, to annotate them and study the historiography of the issues in detail. Such state of the leading bibliographic edition is also the result of the inconsistent policy of national memory on these topics, the lack of appropriate legislation for a long time, and now its imperfection. Not a single law of Ukraine, which deals with the issue of r national liberation struggle in the 20th century, contains a definition of this term.

Key words: bibliographic index «History of Ukraine», content structure, topics, national liberation movement, expulsion, unification of Ukrainian lands, law of Ukraine.