AGRICULTURAL TRANSFORMATIONS IN THE CONDITIONS OF TOTALITARIAN REGIMES OF THE 1930S-1940S IN THE DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE OF UKRANIAN NATIONAL LIBERATION MOVEMENT ON THE TERRITORY OF THE EASTERN GALYCHYNA

Abstract

NATIONAL LIBERATION MOVEMENT ON THE TERRITORY OF THE EASTERN GALYCHYNA Studying the history of the Ukrainian peasantry, researches get to know the whole history of the Ukrainian. After all, peasantry in Ukraine is the core of the Ukrainian nation and has become the main creator of its history. During the 1930s-1940s, Western Ukrainian peasants were hostage to the agrarian reforms of the Polish, Soviet and Nazi governments. Despite the various methods of agrarian reform, the common in the actions of government officials’ actions was a desire to use as much as possible the results of the rural population work. Under conditions of totalitarian regimes, the Ukrainian peasantry cherished the hope that some kind of political force would offer an acceptable method of land reform. One of such forces was the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN). In an effort to get support from the general population, the leaders of the OUN could not avoid the urgent problems of the rural population of Eastern Galychyna, which required the solution of the socalled «land issue» caused by «land hunger» and low agricultural crops of peasant farms.