Experience of Ukrainians of the eastern galicia in setting local self-government systems (end of the XIX – beginning of the XX century) ; Досвід українців східної галичини у побудові системи місцевого самоврядування (кінець ХІХ – початок ХХ ст.)
Problem setting. In the article, the author covers the complex events of the late XIX – early XX century, which took place in the Eastern Galicia. These are the processes concerning the historical experience of Ukrainians in building a system of local self-government, the formation of the Galician Regional Sejm, city and rural executive authorities, and the partisan movement for universal suffrage as an important stage in the struggle for the formation of civil society structures.The experience of Ukrainian state-building needs to be thoroughly studied and disseminated. Due to the long dominance of the Soviet totalitarian system, the silence and concealment of facts from the general public, the understanding of its own involvement in the development of its own land has been lost. This led to a total lack of knowledge and understanding of the people of Ukraine about the achievements of their great-grandfathers. Due to the availability of access to sources, periodicals and documents from the end of the 1990s, it became necessary to highlight historical facts, the essence of which is changing the political accents of modern opponents and supporters of the Ukrainian state-building. The author's reflections on the prospects of Ukrainian statehood at the beginning of the 20th century convincingly point to the presence and willingness of Ukrainians to build their own cooperation, banking and credit affairs, as well as the necessary administrative structures that in the late XIXth and early XXth centuries aroused the desire for changes and gave an example to Ukrainians on the other side of the Dnieper.Recent research and publications analysis. The historical experience of the past can inspire managers (in the circumstances of their self-education) to study the concrete facts that have already taken place in the history of Ukraine, and for the present, it is a chain of analogies. So some aspects of the development of democratic foundations of Ukrainian society at the end of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were considered by the following scientists Yu. Slyvka, B. Savchuk, V. Serhiichuk, T. Hunchak, V. Verstiuk, V. Vidnianskyi, M. Mudryi, A. Arkusha and others.Highlighting previously unsettled parts of the general problem. During the last decades of the state-building searches in Ukraine there have been many changes that indicate that the leaders of the state lack understanding of the necessity for serious scientific developments, which, on the one hand, would reveal the essence of the Ukrainian mentality and attitude towards their own future, and, on the other – would guarantee the pragmatic advancement in the direction of positive changes. Since currently topical processes of local government decentralization, when comparing to the past, are not carefully studied, this aspect of the problem is considered in this article.The purpose of the paper is to uncover the experience of building political representation at the national and local levels of self-government by the Ukrainian community of the Eastern Galicia, problems of state-building, the desire for national freedom, combating external enemies and internal challenges. Paper main body. The author reveals the role of the Ukrainian people of Eastern Galicia in consolidating all the national-patriotic forces of the region in the struggle for the establishment of self-governing institutions in the process of state building.Thus, it is a question of creating favourable conditions for institutional and state-building development. The peculiarity of the historical development of Ukrainian people of the Eastern Galicia was that, in connection with the foreign enslavement, for centuries, the main core of the construction of a national-state cell was the preservation of its national identity by the Ukrainians and the consolidation of national patriotic forces for the realization of their cherished dream – the restoration of the state independence and unity of Ukraine.Conclusions of the research and prospects for further studies. By studying these historical events, we are witnessing some analogy of the past with the present, consistent with the search of the state-owned approach in solving the problems of modern Ukraine. Because of the ignorance of the histories of their people, errors and charges are being revised. The experience, causes of mistakes and ways out of the national crisis in the process of Ukrainian statehood, as well as 100 years ago, are still topical to modern Ukraine. ; Висвітлено складні події кінця ХІХ – початку ХХ ст., які відбувалися на теренах Східної Галичини. Йдеться про процеси, що стосуються історичного досвіду українців у побудові системи місцевого самоврядування, формування Галицького Крайового Сейму, міських, сільських органів виконавчої влади, про вічовий рух за загальне виборче право як важливий етап боротьби за становлення структур громадянського суспільства. Проаналізовано перспективи українського державoтвoрення початку ХХ ст., які переконливо вказують на наявність і готовність українства власними силами будувати кооперацію, банківську та кредитну справу, а також необхідні управлінські структури, які наприкінці ХІХ – початку ХХ ст. вражали бажанням змін і давали приклад українцям по інший бік Дніпра.