KEY ASPECTS OF THE REPRESSIVE POLICY OF THE SOVIET GOVERNMENT AGAINST THE EDUCATORS OF MYKOLAIV REGION IN 1937

(THE ARTICLE DEDICATED TO THE 85TH ANNIVERSARY OF MYKOLAIV REGION SETTING UP)

Abstract

The publication is based on a wide historiographical and source base, archival and criminal cases of repressed educators,  it analyzes the repressive and punitive policy of the Bolshevik regime against the teachers of the region in the year Mykolaiv region was set up. The repressive mechanisms and key factors of the terror state policy against the teachers community are reflected. Relying on archival materials, the false  accusations trumped by penal authorities in the context of the exposure of the so-called  «counter-revolutionary elements»  and  «anti-Soviet organizations» are shown. The methods, historical conditions of  ideological support of such criminal deeds as part of large-scale state policy, case falsification methods and political processes of Stalin's totalitarian regime are revealed. Ways to perform a repressive policy against the educational community of  Mykolaiv region, the participation of the Soviet party  and punitive bodies in it are shown. The largest trials that were conducted on the territory of the Mykolaiv region in 1937 against teachers are analyzed and highlighted. It has been proven that the goal of repressive measures was to establish an  «atmosphere of fear» in society, to deprive potential and real ideological opponents of the regime, to destroy the personnel potential of public education, and to consolidate total control over society in all spheres. The relevance of this research is substantiated by the Concept of national patriotic education within Ukrainian education, the need to develop value guidelines based on the documentary materials about those events.