| Abstrakt: |
The political situation that developed in connection with the change in the status of Western Ukraine after March 18, 1921, when an agreement was concluded in Riga between Soviet Russia and Ukraine, on the one hand, and Poland, on the other, that is, after the Ukrainians of Galicia lost their statehood and independence, is considered. At this stage, a regrouping of national-state forces in Ukrainian politics took place, which initiated a new stage in the development of Ukrainian political and legal thought in the region. It is shown that the idea of statehood and unity, which developed on the basis of the formed concept of a national state, taking into account both civilizational and national and international factors, was reflected in the program documents of Ukrainian parties that stood on state positions, as well as in the journalism of political leaders. All of them defended the Ukrainian national idea, but each of the political forces had its own vision of the solution of the national perspective, which affected the development of the party structure of Galician society. What was common to the legal Ukrainian parties (UNDO, USRP, USDP, FNE) was that they did not recognize the legitimacy of Polish rule in Western Ukrainian lands and used legal forms of struggle for the restoration of national statehood. The difference was that they had different state-building concepts, ways and methods of their implementation, foreign policy orientations, attitudes towards Poland, Soviet Ukraine, foreign representation headed by E. Petrushevych, etc. Illegal political organizations (UVO-OUN) on the path to the restoration of statehood recognized only revolutionary methods of struggle and occupied diametrically opposed positions in the Ukrainian liberation movement. It was found that depending on internal and external circumstances, the Ukrainian parties of Galicia changed their tactics, which influenced the evolution of Ukrainian political and legal thought of a particular ideological trend. This is evidenced by party decrees, resolutions and journalistic materials published on the pages of contemporary printed media. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
