ВПЛИВ РЕВОЛЮЦІЙНИХ ПОДІЙ У СХІДНІЙ ГАЛИЧИНІ 1918–1921 років НА ОБҐРУНТУВАННЯ МІЖВОЄННОЇ МЕСІАНСЬКОЇ ВІЗІЇ ГАЛИЦЬКОГО УКРАЇНСТВА

Abstract

Significance of Galician revolutionary movement and its impact on justification of the messianic vision of the interwar period is revealed, It is established that on the eve of the above-mentioned events political condition of the Galician Ukrainians has deteriorated considerably as a result of the opposition of Polish politicians, which led to further intensification of the interethnic confrontation, Role of the Austrian factor in the state-building processes of Galician Ukrainians is analyzed, It is ascertained that revolutionary events had a positive effect on the design of the interwar messianic maxim, It is stated that Ukrainian-Polish war of 1918-1919 was of the greatest significance: though Galician people suffered defeat due to objective reasons, yet this war led to intensification of liberation struggle during the years of the region's incorporation by the Second Rzeczpospolita, Another event of not less importance was the unification of Ukrainian lands which took place in 1919, and which completed the modern Galician vision of the «Ukrainian Piedmont» as well as became one of the reasons that clearly proved the realness of a united Ukrainian state, It is stated that the impact of revolutionary events significantly influenced further development of the messianic maxim and led to Galicia's transformation into the center of preservation of Ukrainian spirit and national idea,