‘GALICIAN EQUALIZATION’ OF 1914 AS A POLISH-UKRAINIAN POLITICAL COMPROMISE

Abstract

Based on the study of previously unpublished archival materials, legislation, statistics, and materials of periodicals the article attempts to reveal the political and legal mechanisms ensuring the so called ‘Galician equalization’ of 1914. It analyses the model of political and electoral technologies on which it was based, determines their impact on the degree of political integration of the Ukrainian community. It proposes to treat the ‘Galician equalization’ as a provincial model of political cooperation between Poles and Ukrainians, which was built into the system of Habsburg dualist federalism, i.e., as a kind of interethnic modus vivendi with the purpose to balance the political system at the regional level.