THE UKRAINIAN ISSUE IN THE POLITICAL STRATEGIES OF THE POLISH PARTY ENVIRONMENTS OF THE INTERWAR ERA OF THE XXth CENTURY: THE POLISH VISION

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to present the research results conducted by the Polish scholars on the Polish party circles political strategies in the interwar period of the XXth century concerning the Ukrainian issue, to personify the Polish authors’ scientific achievements, to predict the prospects for the further scientific research. The methodology of the research is based on the principles of historicism, systematicity, objectivity as well as the methods of historiographic analysis and synthesis. The scientific novelty is that on the basis of the wide range of historiographical sources, which were created by the Polish researchers, traced the process of accumulation and dissemination in time of historical knowledge about the essence of national programs of the Polish political circles of the interwar period of the XXth century and the ways to solve the Ukrainian issue. The Conclusions. The analyzed problem was studied intensively at the scientific level during the 70 – 80-ies of the XXth century. The researchers managed to clarify the program provisions of the main Polish party and political forces, in particular, the Ukrainian’s issue place and role in it. It was proved that there were two concepts of the official Warsaw’s policy leading in the interwar XXth century towards the Ukrainians – the national and state assimilation. The supporters of the first concept were the Polish National Democracy representatives and the second backed up the “pilsudczycy”. The Polish socialist activists made numerous attempts towards the idea of imposing the territorial autonomy on the Ukrainians, which failed. According to the Polish Ukrainophiles, whose representatives were in different political circles, imagined that the independent Ukrainian state could form up only behind the Zbruch River. Modern Polish researchers deepened their predecessors’ work in all areas of the scientific research, especially in such issues as the Ukrainian issues in the political views of R. Dmowski and in the programmes of the Polish socialists, Christian Democrats, conservatives, the peasant party. It is shown that the visions of solving the national issues in Poland of the last three party groups did not differ in originality and developed in line with the concept of building a national Polish state, implementation during the interwar period of the XXth century