ПРИЗНАЧЕННЯ ПРЕДСТАВНИКА УСРР У ПОСОЛЬСТВО СРСР В КАНАДІ НА ПОЧАТКУ 1920-Х РОКІВ (У СВІТЛІ АРХІВНИХ ДОКУМЕНТІВ)

Abstract

Being involved in the implementation of Soviet foreign policy, Soviet Ukraine achieved international recognition in the early 1920s and established relations with neighboring countries and leading European states. Canada, where a large Ukrainian community had already lived, became a separate direction of foreign policy activity in Soviet Ukraine. Therefore, the aim of the article is to highlight the participation of the USSR in organizing the implementation of the Soviet policy towards Canada in the early 1920s through the prism of archival documents. The scientific novelty of the article lies in the fact that for the first time archival documents related to the appointment of Ukrainian SSR’s representative to the USSR’s Embassy in Canada, as well as the preparation of the «Regulations on the Counselor for Ukrainian Affairs of the USSR’s Embassy in Canada» have been introduced into the scientific circulation. The methodological basis of the research was the methods of historical and source research. The conclusions. In the article, through the prism of documents of the Central State Archive of Supreme Bodies of Power and Government of Ukraine and Central State Archives of Foreign Archival Ucrainica, the issue of the appointment of a representative of Soviet Ukraine SSR to the Embassy of the USSR in Canada in the early 1920s is highlighted. It is rightly stated that the Kremlin’s strategic goal was the creation of a «World socialist republic». Export to foreign countries of the Bolshevik revolution became the means of its implementation. Soviet Ukraine then played a major role in attempts to establish Soviet power in neighboring Poland and Romania. However, the million-strong Ukrainian community in Canada conditioned the involvement of Soviet Ukraine in the implementation of Soviet foreign policy on the territory of this country. Thanks to these documents, it became clear that the Ukrainian Council of People’s Commissars understood the importance of appointing a representative of Soviet Ukraine to the USSR’s Embassy in Canada. In the end, Ivan Kulyk was appointed.