CONSOLIDATION OF THE NATION DURING THE UKRAINIAN REVOLUTION OF 1914 – 1923: MAIN DIRECTIONS OF HISTORIOGRAPHICAL DISCOURSE

O Reient ,V Velykochyi

doi:10.24919/2519-058x.17.218203

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to analyze the place and role of the national unification movement during the Ukrainian revolution of 1914 – 1923, to elucidate the origins of this process and the influence of party-political, the state-building factors on it. The methodology of the research is based on the objective critical analysis of the historiographical complex, the elucidation of factors influencing the vision formation of the studied historical processes, a comparative historical identification of ideological differences assessments, typology of different blocks of scientific works according to logical characteristics. The Scientific novelty of the research consists in proving in modern state historiography the dominance of the state paradigm in the unification processes coverage, which was created by direct participants of the events, highlighting the key trends in the approaches of the authors of the so-called "Pro-UNR" and "Pro-ZUNR" currents to understanding the origins, goals and role of the Dnieper Ukraine and Western Ukrainian political and state elites, respectively, in the national consolidation process. The Conclusions. The analysis of the Ukrainian historiography has shown that most authors, describing the problem of conciliarity/ unification during the first stage of the Ukrainian Revolution of 1914 – 1923, usually focus on the cultural and educational processes of a national nature combined with support for the first military national formation – the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen. It has been proved that the conciliar and consolidation-state processes of the period March of 1917 – April of 1918 were covered in the form of gaining a territorial unity and initiating a national-state dialogue with Western Ukraine. At the same time, we believe that the conciliar processes during the period of the Hetmanate have not yet become the subject of special studies in the national historiography. What concerns the very year of 1918, the central place is occupied by the relations between the Directory of the Ukrainian People's Republic (UNR) and the Western Ukrainian People's Republic (ZUNR), and the core problem remains the Act of Unification. The national historiography identifies as one of the main obstacles to the state consolidation, the conciliar processes different in content vectors of the state-building in the Western Ukrainian People's Republic (ZUNR) and the Ukrainian People's Republic (UNR). It has been stated that the national historiography, although rather slow, still overcomes another research stereotype about a separate international policy of the Western Ukrainian People's Republic (ZUNR) or the Ukrainian People's Republic (UNR).

Highlights

During the period of the centenary of the Ukrainian Revolution at the beginning of the XXth century, one of the most significant and important topics is the problem of the consolidation of the nation
The purpose of this article is to clarify the development of the national historiography concerning the directions and vectors assessment of the practical implementation of the Ukrainian lands unification and the national state formations during the Revolution of 1914 – 1923
Despite the different views on certain aspects of the relations between the Hetmanate and the Western Ukrainian People’s Republic, in a domestic historiography the idea that these contacts became the first “stage” was established, even the “precondition” for further national consolidation steps, which were soon crowned by the Act of Unification

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The national historiography identifies as one of the main obstacles to the state consolidation, the conciliar processes different in content vectors of the state-building in the Western Ukrainian People’s Republic (ZUNR) and the Ukrainian People’s Republic (UNR). Despite the different views on certain aspects of the relations between the Hetmanate and the Western Ukrainian People’s Republic, in a domestic historiography the idea that these contacts became the first “stage” was established, even the “precondition” for further national consolidation steps, which were soon crowned by the Act of Unification.

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