Open AccessUKRAINIAN SOCIAL-DEMOCRACY IN THE PARTY-POLITICAL LIFE OF THE GALICIA OF THE SECOND HALF OF THE 1930-s
Author(s) -
I. Y. Raikivskyi
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
prikarpatsʹkij vìsnik ntš. dumka
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2304-7410
DOI - 10.31471/2304-7410-2019-4(56)-122-136
Subject(s) - ukrainian , democracy , politics , authoritarianism , political science , consolidation (business) , nationalism , political economy , state (computer science) , law , sociology , philosophy , linguistics , accounting , algorithm , computer science , business
The activities of the Ukrainian Social Democratic Party (USDP), founded in 1899, in the second half of the 1930s are highlighted. This party tried to combine the national idea and Marxism, took an active part in political life in Western Ukraine (until September 1939). The USDP used parliamentary methods for the creation of an independent Ukrainian socialist state, opposed the Ukrainian nationalist underground, and had a relationship with Polish and Jewish socialists. Since 1935, for the third time in the pre-war decade, the party has been a participant in the consolidation process of legal Ukrainian parties of national-state movements in Poland, which have periodically emerged under the influence of a number of internal and external factors. On the eve of the Second World War, the crisis of democratic forces, the rise of authoritarianism in various forms across Europe negatively affected the public influence of the USDP, as well as Social Democracy in general in the Second Polish Republic.