ІДЕОЛОГІЧНИЙ ВПЛИВ РОСІЇ НА УКРАЇНСЬКИЙ СОЦІУМ ГАЛИЧИНИ НАПЕРЕДОДНІ ТА ПОЧАТКОВОМУ ЕТАПІ ПЕРШОЇ СВІТОВОЇ ВІЙНИ

Abstract

The beginning of the twentieth century marked the use of ideology as a tool of foreign policy. Thus, Russia entered the First World War under the slogan of the liberation of the enslaved Slavs. At the same time, the Russian government sought to implement its pre-war strategic goal, to expand the borders of the empire at the expense of Galicia, Bukovina and Transcarpathia.On the eve of the war the instrument of information policy of the Russian Empire was Pan-Slavism, a messianic mission for the Slavic peoples. The ideology of Pan-Slavism envisaged the expansion of the Russian Empire at the expense of Red Russia. For expansion, Russia used cultural and religious influence and, through it, its political presence in the region. In order to discredit the Ukrainian national-liberation movement in Galicia, on the eve of the war, Russian governmental and political circles supported, morally and, above all, materially, the Muscophilia, which underpinned the all-Russian national idea. Through Muscophilian organizations, the Russian government was able to carry out not only anti-Ukrainian propaganda among Galician Ukrainians, pulling them to their side, but also anti-state, in order to accidence to Russia all Ukrainian ethnographic lands that were part of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy.On August 11, the Carpatho-Russian Liberation Committee was set up in Kyiv. Its task was to: clarify the so-called "reunification", introduce the Russian administration, and treat the Russian army to the local population; as well as assistance to the refugees and captive Galicians of the Austro-Hungarian army. In addition, in July 1914, Muscophiles issued for the command staff a small work "Modern Galicia", which emphasized the importance of Russophilism in Galicia, the place of residence of the names of members of the Russian People's Council, while neglecting Ukrainian political and national-cultural movement.Thus, the Russian Empire tried to information-psychological approach the population to the future theater of combat. The state propaganda machine work on the organization of the information discredit of the enemy and creation a positive image of his own state and army.It should be noted that the information war began long before Russia's hostilities and was accompanied at all stages of the war, adapting in advance to current goals and objectives;outreach activities directed to all layers of the populations of Austria-Hungary, as well as the Ukrainian population of the Russian Empire, respectively, with different goals and objectives;the main purpose of the information war is to obtain the support of the population to justify the actions of the military leadership of the warring parties; the liquidation of the Ukrainian national liberation movement