Issue 144 (2020)

A. Tron-Radomska, PhD Student

Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17721/1728-2640.2020.144.11

HUMANITARIAN ACTIVITY OF THE UKRAINIAN CENTRAL COMMITTEE IN THE GENERAL GOVERNMENT: A HISTORIOGRAPHY

One of the unexplored and ambiguous questions about the history of Ukraine during World War ІІ is the activity of the only legal establishment of Ukrainians under the Nazi occupation regime – Ukrainian Central Committee (UCC). Scientific interest in the place of the designated organization in the context of that time social and cultural processes in Western Ukrainian lands actualizes the importance of comprehending and analyzing the accumulated historical knowledge about it.

The article investigates the completeness of the study and the representation of the problem in historiography, identifying two periods of its scientific development. Attention is focused on the key trends, thematic aspects, specific results of the researches of scientists of UCC activities in the humanitarian sphere at each stage of the historiographic process. The specificity of reflection of the subject in the historical literature is traced: from factual materials of encyclopedic editions and historical-memoir publications to studies of social and political history of Ukraine, monographs, dissertations and scientific articles, educational editions that directly or indirectly cover the cultural, educational, charitable and sports activities of the UCC.

Historiographic analysis convincingly proves a significant progress in the study of the problem at the latest stage through the intensification of source and archeographic studies that improve the heuristic work in the specified direction, contribute to the emergence of specialized publications of modern Ukrainian historians dedicated to finding out the place of the UCC in the revival of the national, cultural and sports life of Ukrainians in the 1940s. The features of coverage of the problem in contemporary foreign historiography, in which the leading place belongs to Polish historical thought, are revealed. Emphasis is placed on its historical and political orientation and prejudgment.

It is revealed that in terms of personal dimension of the research of the work of the UCC, an important role is played by scientific understanding of the activity of his head – Volodymyr Kubiyovych.

Keywords: Ukrainian Central Committee, historiography, General Government, World War II, Volodymyr Kubiyovych.

Received by the editorial board: 18.02.2020

References:

1. Andrukhiv, O. (2007). Comparative Characteristics of the Legal Measures of the Soviet and Polish Governments during the Interwar Decades in the field of the fight against children homelessness. The Scientific and Information Bulletin of King Danylo Law University of Ivano-Frankivsk. Series: Law, 48-52. [In Ukrainian].

2. Antoniuk, N. (1997). Ukrainian Cultural Life in the General Government (1939-1944): Based on Periodics. Lviv. [In Ukrainian].

3. Armstrong, J. (1996). Heroic and human: Memories about Ukrainian National Leaders of 1941-1945. Modern Ukraine, 1, 101-113. [In Ukrainian].

4. Armstrong, J. (1955). Ukrainian Nationalism. 1939–1945. New York: Columbia University Press.

5. Babii, B. (1954). The Reunification of Western Ukraine with the Ukrainian SSR. Kyiv. [In Ukrainian].

6. Belousov, S. (1950). Reunification of the Ukrainian People in a Single Ukrainian Soviet State. Moscow. [In Russian].

7. Bilovus, H. (2017). Artistic Discourse of the «Our Days» Periodical (1941–1944). Bulletin of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv. Series: Art Studies, 18, 360–392. [In Ukrainian].

8. Wagner, C. (2007). Entwicklung, Herrschaft und Untergang der nationalsozialistischen Bewegung in Passau 1920 bis 1945. Berlin: [s. n].

9. National Holiday. Materials and Documents about the Celebration of the Decade of Reunification of the Ukrainian People in a Single Ukrainian Soviet State. (1950). Kyiv: Derzhpolitvydav USSR. [In Ukrainian].

10. Galicia during World War II (1939–1945). (2001). Ivano-Frankivsk: Plai. [In Ukrainian].

11. Haliv, M. (2012). Organization and Activity of Preschool Educational Institutions of Drohobych Region during the Hitler’s Occupation (1941–1944). Problems of the Humanities: Collection of Scientific Papers of Drohobych Ivan Franko State Pedagogical University. Series: History, 30, 148-169. [In Ukrainian].

12. Hanitkevych, Ya. (2012, August 31). Historical Stages of the Oldest in Ukraine Danylo Halytskyi National Medical University of Lviv. Online journal of the Shevchenko Scientific Society. Retrieved from https://ntsh.org/content/ganitkevich-yaroslav-istorichni-etapi-naystarshogo-v-ukrayini-lvivskogo-nacionalnogo. [In Ukrainian].

13. Hakh, I. (2016). Ukrainian Artists Society. The Exhibition life of Lviv under German Occupation. Photos of Old Lviv. Retrieved from https://photo-lviv.in.ua/suom-vystavkove-zhyttya-pidnimetskoho-lvova. [In Ukrainian].

14. Hinda, V. Galician Chess under German Rule. Zbruch. Retrieved from https://zbruc.eu/node/13499. [In Ukrainian].

15. Hinda, V. (2010). Culture, Education and Sports during Occupation. In Ukraine in World War II: view from the 21^st Century: Historical Essays. Vol. 1. Kyiv: Scientific Thought. Pp. 697–732. [In Ukrainian].

16. Hinda, V. (2013). The Culture of Behavior of Fans and Athletes in Nazi-occupied Ukraine (1941–1944). Gurzhiyev Historical Readings, 6, 170–172. [In Ukrainian].

17. Hinda, V. (2009). Organization of Sports Life in German-occupied Ukraine (1941–1944). Scientific Notes of Mykhaylo Kotsyubynsky State Pedagogical University of Vinnytsia. Series: History, 16, 72–78. [In Ukrainian].

18. Hinda, V. (2014). Sport and Politics in Ukraine during the German Occupation. Zbruch. Retrieved from https://zbruc.eu/node/26797. [In Ukrainian].

19. Hinda, V. (2012). Ukrainian Sport under Nazi Swastika (1941–1944). Zhytomyr: Ruta. [In Ukrainian].

20. Hinda, V. (2013). Hockey in Nazi-occupied Galicia. Bulletin of Cherkasy University. Series: Historical Sciences, 29, 61–67. [In Ukrainian].

21. Hinda, V. (2014). As Galician hockey players pressured German hockey players. Zbruch. Retrieved from https://zbruc.eu/node/17393. [In Ukrainian].

22. Holovata, L. (2008). Cracow–Lviv books and press releases for children and youth in the context of the Ukrainian cultural process of the Second World War. Notes of the V. Stefanyk National Library of Lviv, 1(16), 199–222. [In Ukrainian].

23. Holovata, L. (2010). «Ukrainske Vydavnytstvo publishing house» in Cracow–Lviv, 1939–1945: bibliographical guide. Volume 1: Books and worksheets. Kyiv: Critique. [In Ukrainian].

24. Grigor’yanc, T. (1972). Hitler's Policy of Germanization and Colonization of «Joined» Polish Lands in 1939–1945. Abstract of unpublished thesis (PhD in History), Institute of Slavic Studies and Balkan Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences in Moscow. [In Russian].

25. Dyczok, M. (2000). The Grand Alliance and Ukrainian Refugees. (St. Anthony's Series. Edited by Richard Clogg.). Basingtoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

26. Encyclopedia of Ukrainian Studies. The General Part in Three Volumes (1949–1952). Munich, New York: Young Life. [In Ukrainian].

27. Encyclopedia of Ukrainian Studies. The Dictionary Part. Vol. 9. (1980). Paris, New York: Young Life. [In Ukrainian].

28. Zabolotna, I. (2002). Years of German Occupation in Western Ukraine, based on the Memoirs of Ivan Krypiakevych. Ukrainian Archeographic Yearbook, 7(10), 389–410. [In Ukrainian].

29. Ivanyk, M. (2010). Archive of the Ukrainian Central Committee in Сraсow as a Source for Studying German Occupation Policy for Ukrainians in the General Government. Scientific Notes of the National University of Ostroh Academy. Historical sciences, 15, 210–224. [In Ukrainian].

30. Iliushyn, I. (2012). National Policies and Practices for the Ukrainian and Polish Peoples in the Territory of Their Cohabitation During World War II. National and Historical Memory, 3, 129–146. [In Ukrainian].

31. Isaiv, P. (1970). Peremyshl. Encyclopedia of Ukrainian Studies. The Dictionary Part. Vol. 6. Paris, New York: Molode Zhyttya. Pp.2005–2010. [In Ukrainian].

32. Kytsak, B. (2018). Medical Provision of the Population in the Reichskommissariat Ukraine in 1941-1944. Unpublished thesis (PhD in History). Zhytomyr Ivan Franko State University; Ostroh Academy National University. [In Ukrainian].

33. Koval, M. (1999). Ukraine in the Second World War and the Great Patriotic War (1939–1945). Kyiv: Alternatives. [In Ukrainian].

34. Konigsberg, W. (2017). AK 75. Brawurowe akcje Armii Krajowej. Społeczny Instytut Wydawniczy Znak. [In Polish].

35. Kosyk, V. (1993). Ukraine and Germany in World War II. Lviv. [In Ukrainian].

36. Kubiiovych, V. (1975). Ukrainians in the General Government, 1939–1941: History of the Ukrainian Central Committee. Chicago: Mykola Denysyuk Publishing House. [In Ukrainian].

37. Kulesha, N. (2014). «We Work not for Personal benefit, but for the Eternal Interests of our Ukraine»: Activity of Ukrainian Public Organizations in Germany during the Second World War. Notes of the V. Stefanyk Lviv National Scientific Library of Ukraine, 6, 262-276. [In Ukrainian].

38. Kurylyshyn, K. (2007). Ukrainian Legal Press during the German Occupation (1939–1944): Historical and Bibliographic Research. Vol. 1. Lviv: [s. n]. [In Ukrainian].

39. Kurylyshyn, K. (2007). Ukrainian Legal Press during the German Occupation (1939–1944): Historical and Bibliographic Research. Vol. 2. Lviv: [s. n]. [In Ukrainian].

40. Kurylyshyn, K. (2010). Ukrainian life under German Occupation (1939–1944): On the Materials of the Ukrainian Legal Press. Lviv: Vasyl Stefanyk National Scientific Library of Ukraine in Lviv. [In Ukrainian].

41. Lapan, T. (2005). Recruitment and Deportation of the Ukrainian Population to Germany and Conditions of their Labor and Life in Captivity (1939–1945). Unpublished thesis (PhD in History). Ivan Franko National University of Lviv. [In Ukrainian].

42. Leshnivska, I. (2010). Lviv Regional Universal Scientific Library as a Representative of Galician Culture. Bulletin of the Book Chamber, 8, 33–37. [In Ukrainian].

43. Lutskyi, O. (2010). Prosvita Society and Ukrainian Educational Societies in Galicia during World War II. Ukraine: Cultural Heritage, National Consciousness, Statehood, 19, 255–261. [In Ukrainian].

44. Lutskyi, O. (2011). Public assistance to the inhabitants of the Carpathian region (autumn 1941–summer 1942). Ukraine in the XX century: culture, ideology, politics: collection of articles, 16, 294–304. [In Ukrainian].

45. Makarchuk, V. (2016). Exchange of population in the regulation of the post-war borders of the Ukrainian SSR (according to the results of World War II 1939–1945). Bulletin of the National University "Lviv Polytechnic". Series: Law, 850, 451–460. [In Ukrainian].

46. Markiewicz, P. (2018). The Ukrainian Central Committee, 1940–1945: A Case of Collaboration in Nazi-Occupied Poland. Unpublished thesis (PhD in History). Uniwersytet Jagielloński. [In Polish].

47. Medvid, L. (2003). History of National Education and Pedagogical Thought in Ukraine: Tutorial. Kyiv: Vikar. [In Ukrainian].

48. Moroz, V. (2014). Mykola Nykyforchin as a Prominent Social and Political Figure of Stanislaviv Region. Ukrainian Nationalism: History and Ideas: Scientific Collection, 2, 263–276. [In Ukrainian].

49. Musial, B. (1999). Deutsche Zivilverwaltung und Judenverfolgung im Generalgouverment. Eine Fallstudie zum Distrikt Lublin 1939–1944. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag.

50. National Museum in Lviv: Times of War. Zbruch. Retrieved from https://zbruc.eu/node/23080. [In Ukrainian].

51. German-fascist Occupation Regime in Ukraine: Collection of Documents and Materials. (1963). Kyiv: Derzhpolitvydav. [In Ukrainian].

52. Onatsky, E. (1957). Ukrainian Small Encyclopedia. Book 1. Buenos Aires: [s. n]. [In Ukrainian].

53. Ofitsynskyi, V. (2001). District of Galicia (1941–1944): Historical and Political Essay. Uzhhorod: Grazhda. [In Ukrainian].

54. Panchuk, M., Svorai, S. (1997). School in Western Ukraine in the 20^th Century: Aspects of History and Geopolitics. Ukrainian-Polish Relations in Galicia in the 20^th Century: Proceedings of the International Conference, November 1996. Ivano-Frankivsk: [s. n]. Pp. 334–340. [In Ukrainian].

55. Patryliak, I., Borovyk, M. (2010). Ukraine during the World War II: Attempting a New Conceptual Look. Nizhyn: PE Lysenko M. M. [In Ukrainian].

56. Peremyshl and Peremyshl Region for Centuries. (1996). Collection of Scientific Papers and Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference, organized by the Taras Shevchenko Scientific Society in Poland, June 1996. Peremyshl – Lviv: [s. n]. [In Ukrainian].

57. Petrovskyi, M. (1944). The Reunification of the Ukrainian People in a Single Ukrainian Soviet State. Kyiv-Kharkiv: Ukrainian State Publishing House. [In Ukrainian].

58. Pylypiv, I. & Horan, T. (2016). Charitable Activities of the Greek Catholic Church in the 1920’s and 1930’s. Scientific Bulletin of St. John Chrysostom Theological University of Ivano-Frankivsk «Kind Pastor»: Collection of Scientific Papers. Theology, 9, 140–147. [In Ukrainian].

59. Poliszczuk, W. (2000). Proofs of OUN i UPA crime: Integral Ukrainian nationalism as a variety of fascism: Activity of the Ukrainian nationalistic structures in 1920–1999. Toronto: [s. n]. [In Polish].

60. Polishchuk, P. (1955). Gymnasiums. Encyclopedia of Ukrainian Studies. The dictionary part. Vol. 1. Pp. 381–383. Paris, New York: Young Life. [In Ukrainian].

61. Rohovyi, V. (2007). Publications of the Krakiwski Visti Newspaper about the Support of Ukrainian Students during World War II. Journalism, 6 (31), 165–171. [In Ukrainian].

62. Samotulka, T. (2008). Novak Way. Lviv–New York: [s. n]. [In Ukrainian].

63. Semenko, Y. (1993). Chess in Ukraine: Essays on the History of Chess Game in the Ukrainian Lands and in the Diaspora. Lviv: Kamenyar. [In Ukrainian].

64. Serhiichuk, V. (2008). History of the Ukrainian Students' Aid Commission. Kyiv. [In Ukrainian].

65. Sliusarenko, A. (2009). Ukraine during the Second World War: Tutorial. Kyiv. [In Ukrainian].

66. Sova, A. (2012). Award for the Day of Ukrainian Athlete in Brody. Numismatics. Faleristics,24. [In Ukrainian].

67. Soroka, Yu. (2013). Population of Western Ukrainian Lands: Ethno-political and Demographic Dimension, 1939–1950. Kyiv: Kyiv University. [In Ukrainian].

68. Stefaniuk, H. (2004). School in Western Ukraine during the German Occupation (1941–1944). Abstract of unpublished thesis (PhD in History), Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University. [In Ukrainian].

69. Torzecki, R. (1993). Polacy i Ukraińcy. Sprawa ukraińska w czasie II wojny światowej na terenie II Rzeczypospolitej. Warsaw: [s. n]. [In Polish].

70. Ukrainian-Polish Relations in Galicia in the 20^th Century: Proceedings of the International Scientific and Practical Conference. November 1996. (1997). Ivano-Frankivsk. Ivano-Frankivsk: Plai. [In Ukrainian].

71. Ukraine in the Second World War: View from the 21^st Century: Historical Essays. Vol. 1. (2010). Kyiv: Scientific Thought. [In Ukrainian].

72. Shablii, O. (1996). Volodymyr Kubiiovych: Encyclopedia of His Life and Creativity. Lviv-Paris: [s. n]. [In Ukrainian].

73. Shakh, S. (1977). Where Silver San is Flowing. Historical Essay about the State Ukrainian Gymnasium in Peremyshl. Munich. [In Ukrainian].