Stracone biografie. Los ukraińskich elit adwokackich podczas pierwszej okupacji sowieckiej Ukrainy Zachodniej (wrzesień 1939–czerwiec 1941) w świetle pamiętnikarskiej relacji Miłeny Rudnyckiej
Lost Biographies: The Fate of the Ukrainian Legal Elite during the First Soviet Occupation of Western Ukraine (September 1939 – June 1941) in Light of Milena Rudnytska's Memoir Account

Summary/Abstract: The article analyzes the fate of Ukrainian attorney elites in Eastern Galicia during the first Soviet occupation (September 1939–June 1941), based on Mylena Rudnytska’s memoirs contained in the collection of Ukrainian ego-documents entitled Zakhidna Ukraina pid bolshevykamy. IX 1939–VI 1941, Nyu York, 1958, edited by her. The centre of scientific attention is the list of 78 attorneys— citizens of the Second Polish Republic—who fell victim to NKVD terror. The author of the article reconstructs “the lost biographies” based on declassified NKVD files, Ukrainian Katyn List, Polish and Ukrainian biographical sources, as well as the literature of memory. The paper shows the scale of repressions against the Ukrainian bar association, its meaning in the political and social life of the Second Polish Republic and dramatical consequences of the Soviet elite elimination politics. The research method involves critical analysis of the archival sources, comparison of data from the NKVD documents and witnesses’ reports, and library query in Polish and Ukrainian resources.

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