THE ROLE OF COOPERATION IN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND WELFARE OF THE POPULATION IN EASTERN GALICIA IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

Abstract

The article highlights the importance of Ukrainian cooperation in the life of the Ukrainian population, the impact of cooperation as a coordinating body to increase economic prosperity and consolidation of the Ukrainian nation in terms of being part of a foreign state. An attempt has been made to clarify and determine the socio-economic existence of the Ukrainian people. The policy of the Polish government towards the Ukrainian cooperative movement is also shown, the development of the East Galician agricultural sector in the 1920s and 1930s was raised, while the Ukrainian people, mostly peasants, found powerful weapons in the cooperative to defend their right to exist. The aim of the work is to identify the role and significance of Ukrainian cooperation for the population in Eastern Galicia on the basis of analysis of archival materials and published works, to make a comparative analysis of socio-economic living conditions of Ukrainian and Polish population in the interwar period. Chronological, statistical-analytical research methods, periodization and classification methods were used, which are based on the priority of documentary facts and allowed to clarify the importance of the cooperative movement for the Ukrainian society of that time. At that time, cooperation was developing and becoming a primary factor in public education, civic self-affirmation and the driving force of the Ukrainian people out of economic decline.