History of the Ukrainian party press in the periodicals (first half of the XX century)

Abstract

The aim of the study is to identify the peculiarities of covering the history of some Ukrainian parties that were founded in Naddniprianska Ukraine in the early XXth century, in particular the Revolutionary Ukrainian Party (RUP) and the Ukrainian Social Democratic Worker’s Party (USDRP). Methods. The following main methods were used, such as monitoring of bibliographic, historical and historical-journalistic sources, press clipping of individual publications (magazine «Tryzub / Trident»). Description, analysis, comparison, systematization and generalization made it possible to trace the stages of formation of the RUP (1900), its transformation into the USDRP (1905), to determine the main figures in the political processes of defending national and state interests of the first decades of the twentieth century. Results and conclusions. The object of the study was the Parisian magazine «Tryzub / Trident», which paid special attention to the history of the formation of the RUP and the celebration of the thirty-year activity of this party. During February-March 1930, the weekly published 4 publications dedicated to the anniversary of the RUP, including an article on February 9, a report and a message. An article by former party activist I. Rudychev concerned the establishment of the RUP and its prominent figures (D. Antonovych, M. Rusov, D. Kaminsky, etc.) as well as veterans of the party (S. Petliura, V. Vynnychenko, V. Sadovsky, D. Doroshenko, D. Dontsov and others). Important were the ideas of the RUP–USDRP about the independence of the Ukrainian state, gaining its sovereignty. This national liberation platform was supported by Ukrainian emigration in the first half of the twentieth century.