Rositskyi P. Ukrainian national self-defense in the Galicia districts in 1943

Object: Ukrainian liberation movement in 1943. Purpose: to analyze the process of formation and functioning of the Ukrainian people's self-defense in 1943. Methods: historical-genetic, historical-comparative, historical-diachronic, empirical analysis, historical-system, dissemination, induction, deduction, analysis, synthesis, interviewing. Results: for the first time, the reasons and conditions for the origin of the resistance movement in the districts Galicia were outlined; the dependence of the deployment of the liberation movement on socio-economic factors is proved; the organizational arrangements of the OUN (b) for the creation of a civil-military formation, mobilization to it are highlighted; the structure of Ukrainian national self-defense, the process of its formation, characteristic features and particularities are researched; the combat activity of the UNS against the German occupation forces, the Soviet partisans, the Polish underground is systematically considered; archival documents, materials of the occupational press, as well as memoirs of the participants of the time events were introduced into the scientific circulation; the state of scientific development, source base, conceptual and methodological tools of the dissertation, methods of studying the specificity of the Hitler's regime in the Galicia district, organizational measures of the OUN (b) on the formation of the UNS, regional peculiarities of the development of Ukrainian national self-defense have been improved. Scope of use: in the course of lectures on the history of Ukraine and its troops, historical regional studies, tutorials; in archival and museum institutions.