Ukraińska socjaldemokracja w II Rzeczypospolitej (1928–1939)
Ukrainian Social Democracy in the Second Republic of Poland (1928–1939)

Summary/Abstract: The Ukrainian Social Democratic Party (USDP) was founded in 1899. It tried to combine the national idea and Marxism, took an active part in political life in Western Ukraine (until 1939). After the defeat of the Ukrainian revolution and the open transition to pro-communist positions in March 1923, the USDP was banned by the Polish authorities in early 1924. The ideological and organizational reconstruction of the Ukrainian Social Democracy, which was carried out since 1925, was completed in December 1928 by carrying out the Ukrainian Socialist Congress in Lviv. The restored USDP used parliamentary methods for the creation of an independent Ukrainian socialist state, opposed the Ukrainian nationalist underground, and had a relationship with Polish and Jewish socialists. In the 1930’s, the USDP three times participated in the processes of consolidation of the legitimate Ukrainian parties of national-state orientation in Poland, which periodically arose under the influence of a number of internal and external factors. In the pre-war decade, the crisis of democratic forces, the rise of authoritarianism in various forms across Europe negatively affected the public influence of the USDP, as well as Social Democracy in general in the Second Polish Republic.

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