VOLODYMYR HORBOVY’S ACTIVITIES IN THE UKRAINIAN NATIONALIST MOVEMENT IN THE INTERWAR PERIOD (1920s – 1930s)

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26661/zhv-2024-9-61-09

Keywords:

Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, Ukrainian military organization, Ukrainian liberation movement, interwar period, Volodymyr Horbovy

Abstract

The article reveals the content and features of Volodymyr Horbovy’s activi-ties in the Ukrainian nationalist movement in Eastern Galicia in the interwar period. The research methodology is based on the principles of scientificity, authorial objectivity, verification, systematicity, biographical and prosopo-graphic approaches, as well as general scientific (analysis, synthesis, clas-sification) and special historical (historical-genetic, historical-typological, historical-systematic, criticism of historical sources) methods. The scientific novelty lies in the fact that for the first time in Ukrainian historiography, based on archival and narrative sources, Volodymyr Horbovy’s participation in the Ukrainian nationalist movement of the 1920s–1930s has been revealed, his position as a lawyer and nationalist in the Warsaw and Lviv trials of mem-bers of the Ukrainian Military Organization and the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists has been shown. It has been found that the interwar period for V. Horbovy became decisive for his social and professional self-affirmation. He received a law degree, defended his thesis at the University of Prague and received a doctorate in law in 1927. After some time (in 1929), he nostrified his diploma in Poland and became a member of the Bar Association in Lviv. At the same time, V. Horbovy, having begun his legal career, participated in the activities of the Ukrainian Military Organization, and later the OUN. Despite his arrest and short stay in the Bereza-Kartuzka concentration camp, he remained active in the Ukrainian nationalist movement. In 1935–1936, as a lawyer, he defended the leaders of the Ukrainian Liberation Army and the OUN after the assassination of the Minister of Internal Affairs B. Peratsky in the framework of political processes in Warsaw and Lviv. V. Horbovy, like other lawyers, formed his questions and speeches in such a way as to present a broader picture of the socio-political realities in which the Ukrainian community in interwar Poland found itself, to show the ideological direction and motivation of the OUN leaders. As a result, by turning the trial into a political manifestation, V. Horbovy also contributed to the popularization of the ideas of the Ukrainian liberation movement among the wider public.

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2026-01-04

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VOLODYMYR HORBOVY’S ACTIVITIES IN THE UKRAINIAN NATIONALIST MOVEMENT IN THE INTERWAR PERIOD (1920s – 1930s). (2026). Zaporizhzhia Historical Review, 9(61), 104-112. https://doi.org/10.26661/zhv-2024-9-61-09