UKRAINIAN COMMUNITY OF THE CITY OF STANYSLAVІV IN ELECTORAL MOVEMENT IN GALICIA (END XIXth – BEGINNING OF THE XXth CENTURY)

Abstract

The article describes the most important milestones in the social and political life of the Ukrainian community of Stanyslaviv under the rule of the Austro-Hungarian Empire during the late XIXth and early XXth centuries; the development of eternal and strike movements in the environment of our people is traced; the key requirements that Ukraine has advanced in order to protect its rights against the encroachments of the ruling nations of the Habsburg monarchy have been analyzed; the participation of the Ukrainian population of the city in the elections to the Austrian Parliament (Reichsrat) and the Galician Regional Seim of the study period is characterized. Thus, in particular, among the basic requirements of the Ukrainian community of Stanyslaviv, which were put forward at various meetings and demonstrations, and were vital for our people as a whole, are the following: to divide Galicia into Western (Polish) and Eastern (Ukrainian) parts by providing autonomy to the peoples of the region; to introduce universal equal suffrage to the Halych Regional Seimas and the Reichsrat; to open a university in the city of Lviv with the Ukrainian language of teaching, etc. The article also describes the activities of well-known socio-political figures of the Ukrainian people associated with Stanyslaviv, who contributed to raising the awareness of the population and the deployment of the Ukrainian national movement. Among them: Joseph Guryk, Ivan Franko, Kost Levytsky, Lev Bachynsky, Yevgeny Levytsky, Jerome Barish, Dmytro Vitovsky, Volodymyr Yanovych and others.

The course of this type of socio-political processes in the environment of the Ukrainian community of Stanyslaviv contributed to the raising of national consciousness of Ukrainians, served as one of the prerequisites for the deployment of national state formation before the end of World War I and the period of existence of the Western Ukrainian People’s Republic (ZUNR).