Liubchyk I. Lemkivshchyna and Lemkos in the Recent History of Central and Eastern Europe: Socio-Political Discourse

In the dissertation work for the first time: the available historiography and source base of the researched problem are generalized and classified; the prospects of its further study are emphasized; important, inaccessible and previously unknown documents of state, public, private archives, museum and library collections from diverse countries of the world are put into scientific circulation; conceptual bases of research of Lemkivshchyna region in the light of modern scientific approaches are verified; theoretical and methodological bases were substantiated in research, the scientific and conceptual apparatus is formed, methods of research of a problem are processed; the characteristic factors of the Ukrainian conciliar movement in Lemkivshchyna, the contribution of local figures to the establishment of the Ukrainian national idea in the region through the support of national-state unity with Ukraine and Ukrainophile sentiments in the public consciousness are clarified; the difficult stages of life in the Lemko region in the conditions of deportation actions of the 1940s, carried out as a result of the Soviet-Polish conspiracy of 1944 are traced, and pointed out their territorial, social, cultural and mental consequences; points out the mechanisms of preservation of the Ukrainian national idea among the Lemkos / Ruthenians in the context of the Polish-Czechoslovak-Soviet regimes; the place and significance of ethnocultural aspects in the daily practices of people from Lemkivshchyna, dispersedly settled in Central and Eastern Europe, are studied; Polish, Slovak and Russian factors on the formation/deformation of the ethnic identity of the region's population, the method of its approval as a component of the Polish, Slovak and Russian political course are reconstructed; a reflection of Russian and later Soviet propaganda, at first, in the Lemkos region, and later among the deported Lemkos, is carried out.