SOCIO-ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF THE LIFE OF THE CZECH NATIONAL MINORITY IN UKRAINE ON THE EVE OF THE REVOLUTION OF 1917–1921.

Abstract

The source
base of the issue is described and systematized.
The process of formation of polyethnic
composition of the population of
Ukraine, including the main tendencies of
population growth and resettlement of the
largest national minorities of Ukraine at
different stages of its development, has been
researched. The reasons of the migration
of ethnic groups to Ukrainian lands are revealed.
A retrospective analysis of the migratory
processes of the foreign ethnics and
a comparison of the colonization efforts of
the governments of the Russian and Austro-
Hungarian empires is carried out. The features
of industrial employment, social division
of labor and social structuring of the
Czech national minority of Ukraine are determined.
The infl uence of the policy of the
imperial government on professional stratifi
cation and property stratifi cation of the
Czech population is analyzed, and the level
of its education is clarifi ed. These indicators
were important criteria for understanding
the social conditions of non-Ukrainian
population, its ethnic identity, the formation
of the national elite, the possibilities for
self-organization, places in public life, and
so on. An important place in the work is devoted
to the analysis of the main tendencies
of the ethnopolitics of the government of
the Russian Empire on the Ukrainian lands,
including the political and legal position
of the Czech national minority of Ukraine
during the First World War. It is noted that
the Czech national minority of Ukraine accepted
the revolutionary changes that took
place at the end of the war in the Russian
Empire. The level of political mobilization
of the Czech national minority, its attitude
towards the formation of the Ukrainian
state and participation in the representative
and executive power have been determined.