CELEBRATING THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE WEST UKRAINIAN PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC. THE HISTORY OF THE ZUNR: DIFFERENCES IN APPROACHES AT THE STAGE OF CHANGING PARADIGMS IN UKRAINIAN HISTORIOGRAPHY

Volodymyr Velykochyy

doi:10.15330/jpnu.6.2.17-27

Volodymyr Velykochyy

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The article analyzes the conceptual changes in historiographical approaches to the phenomenon of the West Ukrainian People’s Republic (the ZUNR), whose centenary is celebrated in 2018. Historiographical sources provide clear evidence of the change in the analytical paradigm: shifting from glorification or a downright defamation to a careful examination of the ZUNR’s achievements and failures; investigating the least-studied aspects of its activity; establishing the role and place of the ZUNR in the history of Ukrainian state building.

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During this century, Ukrainian historiography has accumulated a considerable amount of historical and memoir literature on the issue of the national state-building processes in the early 20th century; these empirical corpus and documentary sources, theoretical and methodological developments indicate the emergence of a new trend, ‘the ZUNR* studies’
The situation was improved, to some extent, due to the appearance of historical memoirs – numerous articles in various interwar periodicals, in Litopys Chervonoyi Kalyny (Annals of the ‘Chervona Kalyna’ publishing firm) and its calendars, in regional collections of historical memoirs published in the Diaspora; they became the main source of information about the activity of the ZUNR’s state bodies
One of the key issues in the historiography of the Ukrainian liberation movement and state building in 1914–1920 is that of the national political elite

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Ukrainian historiography has accumulated a considerable amount of historical and memoir literature on the issue of the national state-building processes in the early 20th century; these empirical corpus and documentary sources, theoretical and methodological developments indicate the emergence of a new trend, ‘the ZUNR* studies’. Using the accumulated experience of his predecessors, he researches into the institutional and social history of the West Ukrainian state and does a systemic analysis of the organizational forms of the representative power at different levels.

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