Ideological reasons of conflict between Ukrainian peasant-labor socialist unionand Polish law enforcement structures during interwar period

Анотація

The Ukrainian Peasant-Labour Socialist Union (Sel-Rob) was created by the initiative of the Communist Party of Western Ukraine, its attitude to the Polish internal policy and lawenforcement bodies did not go beyond the ideological framework established by the Communist Party of Western Ukraine and its superiors. At the same time, the Sel-Rob’s ideology concerning both its strategic aim and current political situation was one of the main reasons for investigations and pressure performed by Poland’s police and Prosecutor’s office. Considering the ideological activity of Sel-Rob, there is a need to see the ideological layers in the program documents of this party. If we compare the other Ukrainian parties that profess left views, then there will be a clear difference in the ways of their development and the formation of ideologies as well as different attidute from Polish law enforcemnt structures. The attitude of Sel-Rob to the law enforcement system of Poland was significantly different from the attitude of other Ukrainian parties. However, the activities in Western Ukrainian territories required the assessment of the internal policy of the Polish state from the point of view of national interests. Therefore, the Sel-Rob ideology was one of the reasons for internal contradictions within the party