Стратегії повсякденного виживання української еміграції у міжвоєнній Чехословаччині (1918– 1939 рр.)

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to show the assessment of Ukrainian politicians in the interwar Czechoslovak Republic in the 1920s and 1930s of their departure abroad through the prism of everyday life. The research methodology is based on the principles of a specifi chistorical approach, problem chronological, objectivity, comprehensiveness, and integrity, as well as the use of methods of analysis and synthesis. Th e scientifi c novelty is to refl ect everyday life of Ukrainian emigration. Conclusions. The assessment of Ukrainian political exiles of their departure abroad and the expediency of their stay in the interwar Czechoslovak Republic at the level of everyday practices, in fact, depended on foreign and domestic political and economic factors. If in 1918–1921 attention to going abroad and the expediency of staying abroad was minimal, starting from 1921–1925, provided a combination of “the concept of rapid return”, “Russian aid action”, “golden years of the Czechoslovak crown” and the results of scientifi c and tech nological progress, the stay abroad of Ukrainian immigrants was assessed quite optimistically and eff ectively. Changes in emigration assessments of their departure abroad from optimistic to pessimistic began in 1925–1929: political and everyday – from the moment of the “turn” and the collapse of the “Russian aid action”, economic and everyday – from the time of the interwar Czechoslovakia with the fi rst eff ects of world war crisis and infl ation of the Czechoslovak crown. Since the peak of the economic crisis in the country fell in 1932 and thus the crisis lasted until 1935 (closing the labour market, total unemployment), Ukrainian emigrants were faced with the question of purely physical survival. It was no longer about any political, social, or cultural mani festations. In 1930, they demonstrated to Ukrainian emigrants the futility and inexpediency of their stay abroad, both by the fact that unemployment was eliminated in Bolshevik Ukraine, as well as throughout the USSR (1933), and by the fact that the Second World War “knocked” on emigrant doors (1938, the Munich conspiracy).