Pylypenko L. Ethnopolitical Processes in Poland (1918–1923): The Western Ukrainian Context

The dissertation, based on the analysis of the published and unpublished documents, comprehensively explores the regional (Western Ukrainian) aspect of ethnopolitical processes in the Second Commonwealth from outbreak of the Polish-Ukrainian war to "legal and political" annexation of Galicia. Section 1 «Historiography, sources, theoretical and methodological principles of the study» consists of three sections, which critically analyze the domestic and foreign archeography of the problem, substantiate the theoretical and methodological foundations of the study, describe the archival materials related to the research topic. Chapter 2 «Search for models of reconciliation and coexistence in the revival of nation-building» consists of three sections, which analyze the policy of official Warsaw to implement their ideas about the geopolitical role of the Polish state in Central and Eastern Europe and interstate relations against the background of general postwar international situation on the continent. Chapter 3 «Ukrainian-Polish state and political dialogue in the face of the threat of expansion of Bolshevik Russia (1919-1923)» consists of four sections, which focus on the establishment of an authoritarian regime in Poland, the escalation of interethnic relations in the region, the spread of anti-Polish sentiment in Western Ukrainian society. The dissertation materials once again confirmed that the authoritarian government of the Second Commonwealth failed to resolve the issue of national minorities, and even more so to harmonize / tolerate Ukrainian-Polish interethnic relations in Eastern Galicia and Western Volhynia. As a result, the region still has a traumatic historical memory of the interwar period.