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Hetmanite Movement Records |
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Scope: 1926-1932 |
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The collection comprises correspondence between leading members of the hetmanite movement who went on to establish the Ukrainian Union of Agrarians-Statists. These members include Pavlo Skoropadskyi, former hetman of the Ukrainian state and leader of the hetmanite movement; Oleksandr Skoropys-Ioltukhovskyi, a former member of the Hetman's government in the Kholm region and Podlachia; Volodymyr Zalozetskyi, head of the Ukrainian National party in Bukovina; Mykola Kochubei; and the organizations founder, leader, and ideologue Viacheslav Lypynskyi. Much of the correspondence relates to political disagreements between Lypynskyi and Skoropadskyi which led to the dissolution of the Ukrainian Union of Agrarians-Statists in 1930. History The Ukrainian Union of Agrarians-Statists (USKhD) was an émigré conservative monarchist organization founded in Vienna in 1920 by Viacheslav Lypynskyi, who also led the organization and was its main ideologist. As its mission, the organization sought to unite all Ukrainian agrarians as a class in pursuit of independent Ukrainian statehood. Its members included émigrés from the Ukrainian Democratic Agrarian party and supporters of Hetman Pavlo Skoropadskyi. The USKhD supported the idea of an independent Ukraine ruled by Skoropadskyi and his heirs with the help of an agrarian aristocracy and the co-operation of the productive classes. It was prepared to take power in Ukraine after the collapse of Soviet rule, and thus was in direct opposition to the Government-in-exile of the Ukrainian National Republic. Disagreements between Lypynskyi and Skoropadskyi led the former and his supporters to suspend the USKhDD and to set up the short-lived Brotherhood of Ukrainian Classocrats-Monarchists. After Lypynskyi's death in 1931 the USKhD was revived, but continuing internal conflicts led to its formal dissolution six years later. |
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