The Attempt of Ukrainian Socialists to Create the United National Front in Emigration in the First Half of the 1920s

Abstract

The article is devoted to coverage the discussion of the Ukrainian socialists on the creation of a united national front іn emigration in the first half of the 1920's. The initiators of the association were the Prague group of the Ukrainian Party of Socialist-Revolutionaries and V.Vynnychenko. The Ukrainian Socialists Democrat’s foreign group and other Ukrainian socialist parties were involved in cooperation. The article analyzes the concepts of the united national front of the initiators of the association – V.Vynnychenko, M.Shapoval and N. Hryhoriev, as well as attempts by the Ukrainian socialist revolutionaries to consolidate the socialist and democratic forces of Ukrainian political emigration. The most successful was the cooperation of Ukrainian socialists in Ukrainian civil committee in the Czechoslovakia, which helped Ukrainian refugees, and the Ukrainian magazine «New Ukraine». But the creation of a political association at that time failed. However, the attempt to consolidate had powerful social and cultural implications and cooperation experience.

Keywords: the united national front on emigration, the Prague group of the UPSR, V. Vynnychenko, M. Shapoval, N. Hryhoriev