The Domestic Policy of Interwar Poland in the Opinions of UkrainianConservatives

Анотація

Conservatism occupied a great place in the ideology of the Ukrainian Catholic parties and organizations. This especially concerns those ideas that were expressed in the works of Vyacheslav Lypynsky. The emergence of such groups and their inclusion in the political process is a particular feature of this period of the history of Ukraine. The peculiarity of this phenomenon is that the national revival contributed to the spread of national ideas in almost all parts of Galician society. Simultaneously, unfavorable external circumstances forced not only politicians, but also religious figures, as well as the representatives of the rural and industrial elite to be involved in political activity, trying, or at least declaring their efforts to promote the cultural and economic development of the nation. This was the main factor determining the objectives and goals of each organization. Although Ukrainian conservatives generally accepted Polish state as the suzerain of Western Ukrainian lands, they strongly opposed its policy in the field of internal affairs and ethnic relationship.