НАЦІОНАЛЬНЕ САМОСТВЕРДЖЕННЯ НАСЕЛЕННЯ  В УМОВАХ УКРАЇНСЬКО-ПОЛЬСЬКО-СЛОВАЦЬКОГО  ПОГРАНИЧЧЯ НАПЕРЕДОДНІ ДРУГОЇ СВІТОВОЇ ВІЙНИ

Ігор ЛЮБЧИК

NATIONAL IDENTIFICATION OF POPULATION IN THE UKRAINIAN-POLISH-SLOVAK BORDER- LAND ON THE EVE OF WORLD WAR II

Authors

Ihor LIUBCHYK Author

Keywords:

Lemko region, national self-identification, Russophilism, Old Ruthenians, Lemko separatism, ethnic policy of Second Polish Republic, Slovak ethnic policy

Abstract

The article analyses the process of national self-identification of population in the Ukrainian-Polish-Slovak borderlands (Lemko region) in the 1930s. Based on a wide variety of sources the article demonstrates that this process was not homogeneous: among the local population there were adherents of Ukrainian national orientation, of Russophilism, and Old Ruthenians.