“Pravova derzhava”. Issue 35 (2024), pages 327–336.

DOI: 10.33663/0869-2491-2024-35-327-336

Khudoiar Lesia
The territorial issue in the concepts of Ukrainian state formation of the end of the 19th – the first quarter of the 20th century

One of the most important problems that arose during the collapse of the Austrian
and Russian empires, the First World War and the national revolution of 1917–1921
was the defi nition of the territory and borders of the Ukrainian state. In contrast to
Russian historians and jurists, who, under the infl uence of the Russian centralization
ideology of the 19th and early 20th centuries, ignored territorial and local issues,
Ukrainian historians and jurists paid a lot of attention to highlighting these issues. At
the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries. in Europe, new scientifi c
trends — political geography and geopolitics — were formed and spread, which served
to substantiate the idea that it was the peculiarities of geographical territories that
caused «the division of individual countries and the creation of individual nations».
Since in the process of restoration of the Ukrainian state there were particularly sharp
disputes about the territory, a signifi cant part of Ukrainian geopolitical concepts was
based on geographical and natural resource factors that determined the fate of peoples
and states. The political and scientifi c projects of the formation of the territory of the
cathedral Ukrainian state and the state borders of Ukraine were based on the ethnic
principle, formed on the basis of the combination of the assets of new directions of
European science — political geography and geopolitics with Ukrainian traditions of
state formation. According to the majority of Ukrainian politicians and scientists, the
process of Ukrainian national state formation was conditioned, in addition to social
factors, primarily by geographical and resource factors, which in all nations played a
decisive role in the formation of a national state.
Key words: the territory of the Ukrainian state, the Ukrainian ethnic territory, the
concepts of Ukrainian state formation, the conciliar of Ukrainian lands, the borders of
the Ukrainian state.

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