THE ALL-UNION CENSUSES 1959, 1970 AND 1970 AS A SOURCE OF STUDYING POPULATION TITULAR NATION OF UKRAINIAN DURING THE 60’S-70’S OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
THE ALL-UNION CENSUSES 1959, 1970 AND 1970 AS A SOURCE OF STUDYING POPULATION TITULAR NATION OF UKRAINIAN DURING THE 60’S-70’S OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

Summary/Abstract: The article analyses the All-Union censuses in 1959, 1970 and 1979 as a primary source fora comprehensive studying the population dynamics and the settlement of Ukrainians in differentregions of the Ukrainian SSR during the 60’s – 70’s of the XXth century. The authorhas studied a state of preservation of their native language, has defined the factors whichunder the totalitarian regime negatively influenced the change of demographic processes,especially the ethnic composition of Ukrainian society at the outlined period. The article alsodescribes the national policy of Soviet authorities which guided by the national priority ofstate and nationwide community of «the Soviet people» and ignored the value of an ethnicnation. The author also finds out that Ukrainians were the dominant nation almost throughoutthe USSR in the outlined period. The number of Ukrainian grew exclusively by naturalpopulation growth, while the number of representatives of the Russian nation increased as aresult of internal republican migration. The article brings the idea that Ukraine was one ofthe centers of accumulation of immigration flows in the Soviet Union, and because of thisfact the multicultural Ukrainian SSR society, which constituted basically of the Ukrainians,gradually turned into bi-national, where Ukrainian majority coexisted along with continuouslygrowing Russian minority. Such resettlements were carried out primarily for politicalreasons and were aimed at the loss by native people their national characteristics – language,culture and the like. The main task of migration, which was run by the Soviet governmentwas the assimilation, denationalization and the russification of the Ukrainian people whichwas hidden by slogans of rapprochement of nations.

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