PAGES OF SOCIAL AND POLITICAL ACTIVITY OF OLEKSANDR LOTOTSKIY IN EMIGRATION DURING THE PERIOD OF 1926 – 1932 (ACCORDING TO THE MATERIALS FROM THE BRANCH STATE ARCHIVE OF THE FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE SERVICE OF UKRAINE)

Abstract

The aim of the research is to analyze some circumstances of Oleksandr Lotozkiy’s participation in activity of émigré establishments on the territories of Central and Western Europe during the period of the 1920s – 1930s and to verify the continuance of his social and political activity. The research methodology is based on the principles of historical methods, scientism, objectiveness; also on the use of general scientific (analysis, synthesis, systematization, typology) and special and historical (historic and comparative, problematic, problematic chronological) methods. Apart from it, the research is based on the principles of a biographical approach and theoretical methodological principles of “intellectual history”, as the present research adds to the factual intellectual biography of O. Lotozkiy. The scientific novelty consists in reconstructing the events of Oleksandr Lotozkiy’s life (1870 – 1939) as a social and political figure and historian during the emigration period while making use of open materials from branch state archives of the foreign intelligence service of Ukraine. There are given facts relevant to the figure’s participation in activity of various establishments and organizations founded on the territories of Central-Western Europe during the period of the 1920s – 1930s. The main centers of O. Lotozkiy’s social and political activity in emigration were Prague and Warsaw. If the Prague period was characteristic of partaking in social and political organizations, the moving to Warsaw was connected with joining to the Government of the Ukrainian People’s Republic (UPR) in exile under the leadership of A. Levytskiy. There is a plenty of information relevant to O. Lotozkiy’s cooperation with representatives of the Ukrainian emigration: participation in conferences, congresses, taking care of Ukrainian Church problems, coordination of the UPR Government’s functioning. Apart from it, there are found documents proving O. Lotozkiy’s contribution to reorganizing of political circles of the Ukrainian emigration as well as establishing of multi-branch social activity. The Conclusions. As a result of the present investigation, conclusions are made proving that the emigration period of O. Lotozkiy’s life during the years of the 1920s – 1930s was filled not only with scientific and teaching work, but also with numerous events of social and political character. During the last decades of his life O. Lotozkiy dedicated his time not only to the history of Ukrainian Church, but also took leading positions in the work of the establishments founded by representatives of the Ukrainian emigration in Warsaw, Prague and Paris which shows the continuance of his social and political activity.

Key words: O. Lotozkiy, biography, emigration, social and political activity, Warsaw, Prague.