ARCHIVE DOCUMENTS AS A SOURCE FOR THE HISTORY OF REPRESSIVE POLICY OF THE SOVIET AUTHORITIES

Аннотация

This article analyzes the issues of historiography and source studies of the researches related to the history of repression policy carried out by the Soviet authorities in Uzbekistan. In addition, the types of sources related to the history of repression policy and their classification problems were discussed. Moreover, important archival documents related to the topic were analyzed. KEYWORDS Uzbekistan, repression, National Archives of Uzbekistan, source, classification, fund, collection, land-water reforms, mass collectivization policy.