GENERAL APPROACHES TO UNDERSTANDING THE NATIONAL ("GERMAN") OPERATIONS 1937-1938 IN DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN HISTORIOGRAPHY
The proposed research article can reveal the main methodological approaches to the historiographical problem of national operations of 1937-1938, the main focus of research aimed at the analysis of methodological approaches so-called "German" operation. Addresses the following issues: the Genesis of the "German" operation, the content of the definition of "German" operation, the problem of the existence of "target groups" operations (or who were victims of the "German" operation), the problem of " ethnicization" of Stalinism. The author draws on research foreign and domestic researchers. Based on the materials database repressed Kama discusses the problem of " ethnicization" of Stalinism, the conclusion about the ambiguity of this approach.