Posłowie Klubu Ukraińskiego w Sejmie Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej pierwszej kadencji (1922–1927) – portret zbiorowy
Members of the Ukrainian Club in the Sejm of the Republic of Poland of the First Term (1922–1927) – Collective Portrait

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to sketch a collective portrait of the members of the Ukrainian Club in the Sejm of the Republic of Poland in the years 1922–1927. It analyses their socio-demographic characteristics (age, social background, education, occupation and social status), political face and activity in the field of independence. The process of disintegration of the parliamentary club and the ideological evolution of these people, as well as their later fate are also presented. The deputies of the Ukrainian Club were overwhelmingly peasants’s sons, young people, and in large part thoroughly educated. More than half of them represented a very small stratum of the Ukrainian intelligentsia and white-collar workers, the rest. Almost all of them, both peasants and intelligentsia, were involved in the activities of various social organisations, mainly in the fields of culture, education and cooperatives. In the years 1917–1919, they participated in the struggle for independence and the creation of Ukrainian statehood structures. When they entered parliament in 1922, the process of crystallising their views and political orientation was not yet complete. Over the next few years, the Club disintegrated and radicalised towards left-wing or nationalist attitudes. The subsequent fate of most of them exemplifies the tragic fate of Ukrainian political elites under Soviet occupation.

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