M. OMRLIANOVYCH-PAVLENKO’S FIGURE IN THE CONTEXT OF UKRAINIAN REVOLUTION OF 1917–1921s

Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Ukrainian Revolution of 1917–192s gives us an opportunity to discover unknown pages of history and fi gures of that time. General Mykhaylo Omelianovych-Pavlenko was a talented military offi cer of the Russian imperial army, and with the beginning of the revolution actively took part in the Ukrainian national state formatuion. He was one of the founders of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Omelianovych-Pavlenko’s role in the processes of formation of the Ukrainian Cossacks was quite fruitful. His leadership of the UGA during the Polish-Ukrainian confrontation and the commander of the UNR Acting Army during the Winter Campaign could be reckoned as one of his greatest achievements. Thus, Mykhailo Omelianovych-Pavlenko played a signifi cant role in examining the events of the Ukrainian Revolution of 1917–1921s. The importance of this topic is connected to the historiography issues about general showed as individual person and didn’t correspond to the events of Ukrainian Revolution. The subject of this research is the military and social activities of Omelianovych-Pavlenko in 1917–1921s. Methods of research are empirical (the general observation of Omelianovych-Pavlenko’s activity, the comparison in various state structures of the revolution) and theoretical (the analysis of general’s activity at diff erent stages of the revolution and the synthesis of the received results in a single logical series). The results of the study make it possible to trace the general activities of the events of the revolution, determine his role in military formations, and clarify his attitude towards contemporary political fi gures and state entities