UKRAINIAN CITIZENS' COMMITTEE IN 1918 – 1921 (ACCORDING TO THE MATERIALS OF THE PERIODICAL “DILO”)
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The purpose of the article is to analyze the activities of the Ukrainian Citizens' Committee concerning social welfare, legal protection, and medical assistance to the Ukrainian prisoners of war, interned soldiers, and war invalids based on the materials of the periodical “Dilo”. The Research Methodology. The methodological basis of the research is based on the principles of objectivity and historicism, with observance of general scientific and special historical methods of analysis, which make it possible to reveal the importance of sections activities of the Ukrainian Citizens' Committee in the field of social protection of the population of the region, care of war invalids, orphans, the Ukrainian soldiers, providing them with material, legal, moral and medical assistance. The scientific novelty consists in elucidating the main activity areas of the Ukrainian Citizens' Committee based on the materials of the periodical “Dilo”, which was aimed at resolving social care, legal protection and assistance to internees, relocated people and victims of war. The periodical's published materials about the living conditions of prisoners of war, assistance to the invalids, which contributed to the improvement of their social protection, have been analyzed; the activities of the Ukrainian Citizens' Committee regarding the maintenance of war graves and commemoration of the dead have been highlighted. The Conclusions. Thus, the foundation of the Ukrainian Citizens' Committee, the periodical “Dilo” covered in detail the directions of its activities under the difficult socio-political conditions of the Polish occupation and national resistance. The Committee was the only legal national institution that represented the interests of the Ukrainians, participating in the social protection of various strata of the Galician population, acting with the support of national, financial and cooperative institutions, the Greek Catholic Church. Despite the ban on the activities of the Ukrainian Citizens' Committee, its organizational branches and sections became the basis for the creation of a number of separate societies, in particular, the Ukrainian Medical Society, the Union of Ukrainian Lawyers, the Ukrainian Society for Assistance to the Invalids, and the illegal Committee for Assistance to Political Prisoners.
Key words: Ukrainian Citizens' Committee, the periodical “Dilo”, social care, war victims, national resistance.
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