Polish-Jewish relations in Lviv 1918 – 1919 (selected issues).

During World War I Lviv became a field of struggle between Poles and Ukrainians for the possession of the city. During the conflict Jews declared to be neutral. Nevertheless, when the Polish army took over the city, anti-Jewish riots started. Jews were, mainly falsely, believed to support Ukrainians. The pogrom lasted for two days (Nov 22 – 23 1918) and had a strong negative effect on the Polish-Jewish relations. Another important issue was the question of equality for Jews. Most of the Jewish political parties in Lviv understood and supported the demand. Poles, for various reasons, could not agree to grant Jews with a national-cultural autonomy. For the public opinion in Poland, the Jewish struggle for equality was only another example of their hostility towards the Polish state.

Ukrainian Military Mobilization Resource in Eastern Galicia: Numerical, Age and National Composition (1918)

In the article, based on published statistical publications, the works of Polish and Ukrainian historians, the author aimed to find out the demographic opportunities of the Ukrainian ethnithity of Eastern Galicia to fill the WUNR Armed Forces with sufficient personnel. Based on this and the nature of the sources, the religious (national), age, gender composition of the population of the entire Halych region have been analyzed, which made it possible to approximate the number and share of Ukrainians in the total population of the region before the outbreak of the world war. The calculated figure was adjusted as of 1918 according to objective, in our opinion, data around the natural and mechanical movement of the population and the imperial military mobilization campaigns during the Great War, used in various historical studies. At the same time, Ukrainian physical losses in the fields, the number of the wounded and imprisoned were taken into account to better understand the male demographic potential that could be used during military construction. Thus, the maximum indication of the possible number of human resources (not taking into account the state of health) in the Galician army was established, which is important for understanding the process of creation of military forces of Ukrainians at the end of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and at the beginning of its own state-building.

Some features of economic development of village in the Eastern Galicia in 20–30 years of the 20th century

The article deals with the agrarian policy of the Polish government of the interwar period, which was intended to reform the agricultural system to increase productivity of agricultural production, the development of commodity-money relations and the activation of cooperative movement. The governmental policy has led to the formation of a land market, creating conditions for the origin of independent farms of different types and sizes, which were based on a private property of land. The main component of the agricultural policy of the government was colonization, which was intended to strengthen the eastern borders of the Second Polish Republic by creating economies of the colonists. They have become a social and political support for the government on the “Eastern lands.” This state policy influenced hostilely on millions of the local Ukrainian population. In despite the understanding of a significant number of Polish politicians and scientists such activities harm to the interests of the state, during the interwar period colonization of the land remained the main direction of agricultural policy. The Polish government has openly ignored the problems of the Ukrainian village, which led to a tangle of economic, national and social troubles that impacted on the Polish-Ukrainian aggravation of interethnic relations.