TY - JOUR AU - Lesia Kovach PY - 2019/04/26 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - National minorities in the lands of Ukraine as part of the Second Rzeczpospolita: Ukrainian-Polish political science discourse JF - HUMANITARIUM JA - hum VL - 41 IS - 3 SE - Philosophy DO - UR - https://humanitarium.com.ua/index.php/hum/article/view/458 AB - The situation of national minorities on the lands of Ukraine within Poland during the interwar period is analyzed. The conclusion is made about the discriminatory nature of Polish policy regarding the group rights of Ukrainians, Jews and other minorities. The difference in the dominant concepts was only in the methods of realization of the mono-ethnic model of the state. While the Social Democrats and their leader Y. Pilsudski promoted a strategy of “state assimilation” of national minorities, then representatives of the National Democrats (Endek) camp led by R. Dmowski advocated and implemented a policy of full national assimilation. The intensification of conflict in the relations between Poles and Ukrainians, who were one of the largest national minorities in interwar Poland and sought to revive their own statehood, was facilitated by the use of the practice of mutual terror. The political relationship between Jews and Poles was also politically difficult. With the greatest caution, the Polish authorities treated the Zionists. In Poland, the Zionists sought to create cultural and national autonomy and demanded the protection of their national and economic rights. For the most part, the Poles cooperated with the Bund group (the All-Jewish Workers' Union), which supported rational assimilation with the Polish nation, and its participants were opponents of Zionism. Clearly anti-Jewish, Polish politics acquired in the late 1930s. The actions of the Polish authorities regarding Belarusians were also assimilatory. As a result, this did not allow the consolidation of the Polish state, led to the radicalization of national movements and the subsequent occupation of Poland by the troops of the USSR and Nazi Germany ER -