INTELLECTUAL BASES OF UKRAINIAN AGRARIANISM OF THE REVOLUTIONARY EPOCH: VYACHESLAV LYPYNSKY

Abstract

Thepurposeofthearticle – to explore the intellectual foundations of the Ukrainian agrarianism of the revolutionary era in the views of V. Lypynsky. The research methodology is based on such principles of historical knowledge as scientificity, historicism, objectivity, systemanalysis, etc., as well as on the application of general scientific, special historical study methods. The scientific novelty consists in the following issues: it is in V. Lypynsky’s works analysed by us the thinker focused on such basic agrarian meanings as: 1) uniqueness and indisputable value for mankind of spiritual, moral, cultural and social properties inherent in the peasantry and its labour; 2) recognition of the peasantry as a stratum capable of playing an independent role in political life; 3) non-capitalist, “separate” peasant way of society development, preservation of private property – small peasant property as its optimal regional option and the basis of social progress, as well as the idea of a peasant cooperative state; 4) the predominance of agriculture and rural way of life over industry and the city, as well as the peasantry over other social groups; 5) the peasantry – the agricultural strata – concentrates the basic positive values and qualities of society, is the foundation of state stability and the bearer of national identity, and the above virtues should determine its political power.The Conclusions.After the Ukrainian Revolution of 1917 – 1921, the peasantry continued to defend their own path of development. At the end of the 1920s and the beginning of the 1930s, the peasantry resisted the state, from covert to overt armed. It did not tolerate another communization of the countryside. V. Lypynsky's grain grower ideology had a clear agrarianist meaning, and the intellectual was one of the theorists of the Ukrainian agrarianism of the revolutionary and interwar periods. The principled ideologues proposed by him clearly correspond to the key meanings of both Eastern European and Ukrainian agrarianism.