Kanevska I. Olgerd Bochkovsky's social, political and scientific activities in exile (1905-1939)

The thesis is the first comprehensive study of O. Bochkovsky's life, social, political, research and pedagogical activities. In this paper the analysis of studies concernity this problem is given. A wide range of national and foreign archive sources and documents, memoirs, periodicals, correspondence, publications and O. Bochkovsky's heritage are analyzed to fully reveal the life and work of the scientist. The dissertation provides scientist's outlook formation particularly noting Bochkovsky's personal development as a patriot taking place beyond Ukraine's ethnic borders. Ukrainian played an important role in the process of scientist's national consciousness establishing becoming a self-identification mean. Participation in the student social-democratic sections of the Faculty of Philosophy Charles University helped Bochkovsky's ideological formation. T. Masaryk played a prominent role in the Bochkovsky's development as professional sociologist, in formulating his teaching skills and the formation of a scientific outlook. Bochkovsky's practical experience as publicist and scholar, researcher and journalist was formed during 1905-1918 when the scientist began his long-term working on nationology as an independent science. Bochkovsky used the term "nationology" for the first time in his work "National Affairs: Articles on the national questions in connection with the present war" (1918). Scientist's participation in UNR diplomatic mission creation in Prague (1919) is reconstructed in the dissertation based on Czech historiography analysis and Bochkovsky's personal memoirs. Bochkovsky put considerable effort to organize and activate socio-cultural activities of the Ukrainian emigration especially in the education sphere. He taught sociology and nationolgy in Ukrainian economic academy since 1924. The thesis shows little-known details of Bochkovsky working visits to Canada, the United States, England and France during the 1936-1939 noting that he was one of the first scientists who visited the Ukrainian foreign emigrant cells with humanitarian objectives