SOCIOPILITICAL SITUATION IN THE POLTAVA REGION DURING THE PERIOD OF UKRAINIAN NATIONAL REPUBLIC

Abstract

Ukrainian national movement ideas appeared and evolved from the Cossack epoch and national liberal movement under hetman Bohdan Khmelnуtsky, and have been developing nowadays (national Ukrainian Movement, Ukrainian National Party, etc.). In the beginning of the First World War social and political life in Poltava region almost stopped. Opposition parties were forbidden or even destroyed, only Cadets (Constitutional Democrats Party) and so-called “oktyabrysty” acted legally. Small numbers of groups took the illegal position. Among them were “essery” (socialist revolutionaries) and “esdeky” (social democrats), though The Russian Social Democratic Revolutionary Party despite the difference of ideas has not been divari-cated into “bilshovyks” and “menshovyks” yet. And only the events of The Febtuary Revolution of 1917 facilitated the activity of national lib-eral movement in Ukraine.