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The purpose of the article is to demonstrate promising areas of research on disenfranchised Jews in the Ukrainian SSR in the 1920s and early 1930s based of archival materials analyzed by the author before the full-scale war between Russia and Ukraine. The author explores the relationship of ethnicity and the employment structure of the Jewish population in Ukrainian SSR with the disenfranchisement, reveals the main actors - declassed Jews, the reasons for their disenfranchisement, mistakes and abuses of the authorities in disenfranchisement, the impact of disenfranchisement on economic and social life, strategies of Jewish resistance to the situation in which they find themselves. The research methodology is based on the analysis of primary sources - archival documents of the archives of Ukraine (TsDAVO of Ukraine and the State Archives of the city of Kyiv), which have never been introduced into scientific circulation. The scientific novelty of the article is determined by the lack of thorough studies of Jewish disenfranchised Ukrainian SSR, since the main attention of scientists is focused on the study of the RSFSR. The author demonstrates his vision regarding the connection of ethnicity, territory and employment of the Jewish population with the number of disenfranchised persons as well as on the methodology of their calculation. The article highlights factors that could contribute to the significant size of this group - the traditional employment of Jews in trade and handicrafts in the Pale of Settlement during the Russian Empire, the continuation of this tradition during the NEP, denunciations, settlement of accounts with Jews by local activists and the poor, anti-Semitism. The article describes a campaign to resettle disenfranchised residents of Kyiv from the housing stock, as a result of which many Jews were evicted from their apartments, as well as various cases of arbitrariness of local authorities. The author shows the attempts of the Jews to fight for the restoration of voting rights, as well as the results of this process.
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