Abstract

The work consists in political and legal analysis of the preparation and inclusion of Northern Bukovina to the Soviet Ukraine by strengthening institutional and procedural mechanisms of formation of the Soviet political system. Initial theoretical and methodological basics of research include consideration of the concepts of «political system», «political regime», «totalitarianism», «Stalinism». The author reveals international political situation, which resulted in evacuation of Romanian troops from Northern Bukovina and entry of the Red Army in June 28, 1940, according to the Soviet leaders’ military doctrine developed in the 30-s that was based on the indivisibility principles of the Soviet Union and «revolution exports». It is indicated that in June-August 1940 the Red Army carried out signifiant agitation and propaganda as well as ideological education work, especially in the initial period, substituting a party and offiial authorities. The author gives separate analyses of peculiarities of procedural practices of political activity in response to impulses emanating from the political system and its institutions; participation in activities related to delegation of authority; participation in political and socio-political organizations; performance of political functions within the institutions that are part of the political system or act against it; direct action; activity in non-institutional political movements against the existing political system, seeking its radical restructuring and form of political mobilization through mass events as the basic elements of the implementation of the Soviet mass society model. The work includes the results of massive political mobilization in support of the totalitarian regime, manifested in the results of the electoral practice - elections of the Supreme Council of the USSR and Ukrainian SSR 12 January 1941. The main attention is paid to the political and legal analysis of the formation and staffig of the party and repressive-punitive organs in the region in general and involvement of local, mostly Ukrainian population into management bodies, almost exclusively at lower levels of administrative political leadership. The author points to a clear repressive and punitive nature of the Stalinist variety of totalitarian assertion that was deployed in arrests, extrajudicial persecution, deportation of the local population of Chernivtsi region, which did not show much loyalty to new government and its local representatives.