Становище православного та римо-католицького духовенства в Радянській Україні в 1920–30-ті рр.: джерелознавчий аспект проблеми

Summary. The purpose of the article is to analyze the source base of the problem, classify the sources of the problem, find out their informative value. The research methodology is based on the principles of historicism, systematization, scientificity, objectivity, as well as the use of general scientific (analysis, synthesis, generalization) and special-historical (historical-typological, historical-systemic) methods. The scientific novelty the results obtained are determined by the fact that for the first time a generalized analysis of the source base of the situation of the Christian clergy (Orthodox and Roman Catholic) in the Soviet Ukraine in the 1920–30’s. Conclusions. Only written historical sources have been studied. They in turn are divided into published and unpub-lished (archival) materials. Among the studied published sources are official and normative (act) documents, reference, statistical sources, sources of personal origin, periodicals. Many published documents are contained in collections of documents, in scientific works on various problems of the history of Christianity and in other archeographic publications. Representativeness of the source base on this problem is provided by a set of archival documents of two central and several re-gional state archives of Ukraine. This set of materials is diverse, colorful with most of them being legislative, statistical, reference materials and others. The source base of this problem is quite representative, all groups of sources are characterized by high factual and scientific value.
Key words: оrthodoxy; сatholicism; church; historical sources; repressions; clergy; discrimination.