LEGAL AND REGULATORY SETTLEMENT OF THE LANGUAGE ISSUE IN THE SOVIET UKRAINE (1964 – 1985): SCIENTIFIC AND EDUCATIONAL ASPECT
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A comprehensive analysis of the legal and regulatory framework for the settlement of the language issue in the USSR, as well as the study of its influence on the processes of russification in the scientific and educational sphere is the main purpose of this article. The Methodological basis of the research is the complex of general scientific methods, especially historical and interdisciplinary methods that enable you to solve the problem of scientific knowledge comprehensively. The article is based on the principles of historicism, objectivism, logic and continuity. The scientific novelty is that for the first time systematized the complex sources that confirm russification in educational and scientific fields of Soviet Ukraine. It was implemented into the scientific circulation of new documentary evidence about the Soviet language policy. The Conclusion. In the research it has been highlighted the key legal documents that testified russification in educational and scientific spheres. It was identified the features of the implementation of a language policy in all schools of the UkrSSR. A detailed analysis of archival materials allowed to reveal holistically the peculiarities of state regulation of the language issue in the absence of a legislative framework, which defines the status of languages in the Republic up to 1989. It was clarified the trends of national school development on the territory of Ukraine, the formation of classes with the Russian language of teaching, as well as justification of the Soviet political figures of the prospects of studying the Russian language. It has been summarized the available scientific achievements of domestic and foreign researchers (including Russian) on the problem of the research. It has been identified a legitimate intensification of the Soviet party and state authorities in the processes of russification of society at the end of the 1970s – the beginning of the 1980s. It has been emphasized the consequences of the russification policy at the present stage and indicated the relevance of further research in this direction.
Keywords: russification, document, legal and regulatory acts, education, language, judgement, order.
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