MODEL OF THE TOTALITARIAN STATE IN THE VIEW OF OUN’S ACTIVITIES (1920s-1930s) AND CLASSICAL WESTERN CONCEPTS OF TOTALITARISM: COMPARATIVE ASPECT

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to identify the features of the totalitarian model of organization of state power created by representatives of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists in the 1920s – 1930s, as well as to make a comparative analysis of the classical Western concepts of totalitarianism with the theoretical heritage of Ukrainian nationalists. The methodology of the research is based on the principles of systematic, dialectic, authenticity, concrete-historical approach, logic. General scientific (analysis, dialectical, synthesis, structural-functional, generalization) and special (content-analysis, comparative, system-historical) methods are used. The Scientific Novelty. The political conception of Ukrainian nationalists of the 1920s – 1930s was first characterized in terms of defining the model of a totalitarian state. A comparative analysis of this model with classical theories of totalitarianism, formed by Western political scientists after the Second World War. The Conclusions. Based on an analysis of the political concepts of Ukrainian nationalists of the 1920s – 1930s, it is found that they completed the basic features of a totalitarian state. The creation of a model of a totalitarian state during this period is conditioned by objective prerequisites. The OUN’s activities took place in the context of a discriminatory policy towards the Ukrainian population between Poland. That is why ideas of hard resistance to the Polish authorities were popularized among Ukrainians. It was in a totalitarian state that Ukrainian nationalists saw a mechanism that would allow them to withstand external threats. In addition, in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe in the 1920s – 1930s, ideas about a totalitarian organization of state power were also very popular. The theories of totalitarianism by Western scholars emerged after World War II. It can be argued that there is a indirect influence of these concepts of OUN figures on classical theor ies