Panfilova, T.
(2022).
Lessons of consolidation processes of Ukrainian community of Western Ukraine in the first quarter of the XX century.
Democratic Governance,
15(1),
42-56.
https://doi.org/10.23939/dg2022.01.042
The author analyzes the domestic and foreign policy circumstances of the consolidation aspirations of Ukrainians in Western Ukraine in the first quarter of the twentieth century. The search for a common path, the unification of political parties and their consolidation for a common goal in protecting the socio-economic and national-political rights of Ukrainians formed on both sides of the Dnipro River an awareness of the need for unity, independence and unity in creating their own state. The ways and means of political struggle of various parties and organizations pointed to the search for a common course in overcoming the denial by international structures of the existence of young shoots of Ukrainian statehood. The reasons for its failures and the consequences for further consolidation of national-patriotic forces in Western Ukraine are revealed. At the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, political parties and organizations of Eastern Galicia clearly outlined their program of activities: protection of the socio-economic and national-political rights of Ukrainians in the Austro-Hungarian Empire and consolidation of the Ukrainian people and its intellectual structures to fight for the restoration of state independence and unity of Ukraine. Depending on the domestic political and international situation, the programs of action of political parties were improved and specified. This was the time of the First World War and the Ukrainian national-democratic revolution in the Russian and Austro-Hungarian empires, in the context of the proclamation of the Ukrainian People's Republic and the Western Ukrainian People's Republic, and during the struggle against Poland's attempts to annex Eastern Galicia in 1918-1923. After the decision of the Council of Ambassadors of the Entente on March 14, 1923, to transfer Eastern Galicia to the Polish state, the national-patriotic forces of the region, deeply analyzing the causes of the defeat of the national liberation struggle, tried to comprehend the real situation and determine a further program of action. It is clear that different political parties and groups assessed in their own way both the reasons for the defeat and the ways and means of getting out of this situation, offering their own vision of solving the Ukrainian issue in Galicia and in all the lands of Ukraine enslaved by foreign powers
Eastern Galicia, Western Ukraine, annexation, ukrainization, real politics
Received 23.12.2021, Revised 28.03.2022, Accepted 29.04.2022
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https://doi.org/10.23939/dg2022.01.042
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