Yrij Z. Polish, Russian and Ukrainian Nation Establishment Projects towards the Right-bank Ukraine in the mid 19th Century.

The dissertation is devoted to problems of ideological, theoretical and tactical confrontation between representatives of the Polish, Russian and Ukrainian national elites in the Right-bank Ukraine in the mid 19th century who struggled for implementation of their national projects of national development of this area. The author concludes that in order to implement these objectives representatives of the mentioned national ideologies were trying to gain support of peasantry. It is proved that the Polish and Russian nation establishment projects were aimed at explicit national confrontation. The Ukrainian elite was trying to nationalize people's awareness by means of education and proclaiming realization of individual civic rights in native cultural and language environment.