„Vojna skončila, nech žije vojna!“
Ukrajinská vojensko-politická emigrácia v Československu v medzivojnovom období

MICHAL ŠMIGEĽ
Katedra histórie, Filozofická fakulta, Univerzita Mateja Bela v Banskej Bystrici

“The War Is Over, Long Live the War!” Ukrainian Military-Political Émigrés in Czechoslovakia during the Interwar Period.

Abstract: The defeat of the Ukrainian state-building projects of the revolutionary period of 1917–1921 triggered a large-scale wave of political and military emigration, giving rise to one of the characteristic phenomena of Ukrainian history in the interwar period. Czechoslovakia occupied a distinctive place in the history of interwar Ukrainian emigration. Already during the final phase of the Ukrainian struggle for statehood, the republic came into direct contact with its military and political actors. Czechoslovakia became a place of internment for several Ukrainian military formations and a centre of political exile, educational and cultural life, as well as of the Ukrainian émigrés’ continuing political and organisational activities in the years that followed. Ukrainian emigration in interwar Czechoslovakia has long attracted the attention of Czech and Slovak historiography. The predominant scholarly focus on educational, academic, cultural, and social activities has, to some extent, overshadowed the military-political dimension of Ukrainian emigration, individual aspects of which have generally received only partial and fragmentary treatment in Czech and Slovak scholarship. The present study aims to analyse Ukrainian military-political emigration in Czechoslovakia as a dynamic and internally differentiated phenomenon and to trace both its continuities and transformations from the final phase of the Ukrainian Revolution through the end of the 1930s.

Keywords: Ukrainian struggle for statehood; Ukrainian military-political emigra-tion, Czechoslovakia and the Ukrainian Question, Polish-Ukrainian relations, Czechoslovak-Ukrainian Relations in the 20th Century.