Bondarenko, E.V. The “Volyn Program” of G.Yuzevsky: nature and implementation problems (1928-1938)

Abstract: The object of studies is the “Volyn Program” G. Yuzevsky as an attempt of the complex transformation of social and political landscape in the Volyn province in the conditions of social and political antagonism of ethnical nature in this region. The “Volyn experiment of G.Yuzevsky based upon the “Volyn Program” took place in the conditions of growing authoritarian tendencies in the political system of the 2nd Rzeczpospolita Polska, which finally destroyed efforts of the military governor (voivod) for the implementation of the “Volyn Program”. The article also concerns a significant aspect of influence of the “Volyn Program” upon the regional political aspect in the Volyn province, as a reflection of the ongoing general public political processes in the 2nd Rzeczpospolita Polska in the second half of the period between the wars. The research involved general scientific methods, such as logical, historical, systemic and special scientific methods, such as institutional, behaviorist, functional. The novelty of the study is due to the fact that the topic of “Volyn Program of G. Yuzevsky has no analogues in the modern Russian political science. The main conclusions are as follows. The “Volyn Program” is an interesting example of the conceptual basis for the construction of social and political area in the conditions of poly-ethnic region, where the majority of people are being subject to legal, political, social and cultural discrimination on the part of title nation minority from the state of which the province is the part.

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