CRYSTALLIZATION OF THE CONCEPT OF THE NATIONAL IDEA IN THE GALICIAN INTERWAR DISCOURSE

Abstract

Summary. The article analyzes the peculiarities of the formation of the concept “national idea” in the 20s and 30s of the 20th century in Galicia. Since the socio-political existence of Galicia in the interwar period in scientific research has already been highlighted, attention is focused on the crystallization of the national idea, particularly on the Ukrainian Independent Cathedral State (UICS) as a key concept in the Ukrainian political picture of the world during the analyzed period. It was this concept-idea that became the subject of research, determining its purpose, i.e. a cognitivediscursive analysis of a conceptual concept, its filling with military meanings. It is emphasized that the idea of the Ukrainian Independent Cathedral State was effectively established both in the circles of the Ukrainian military elite and on the pages of the most authoritative magazine of the interwar period “Literary and Scientific Herald”. Under the editor-in-chief Dmytro Dontsov, the magazine became a significant intellectual phenomenon in national and cultural progress. Visnyk consolidated and mobilized (ideologically, politically, psychologically) ranks of convinced and loyal fighters for Ukrainian statehood. It was investigated that the publications in the “Literary and Scientific Herald” variedly reflected the events of that time, reproduced the development of the Ukrainian political term system, crystallized the national idea, contributed to the formation of the Ukrainian self, which was to be dominated by the state-building orientation and the desire to establish independence through cultural and moral factors, and political expression of nation-centricity as a priority. In the context of the restoration of historical memory, significant pages of our history, the origins of the Ukrainian underground movement (Ukrainian Military Organization, Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists), its place and significance in the formation of Ukrainian statehood are explained. Based on the cognitive and communicative-pragmatic dimensions of the political term, it is substantiated that each polytonym-term is ideological, and each polytonym-concept is culturally significant and ideologically oriented. After all, political culture is inextricably linked with ideology, which models the system of ideals and values in politics. It is emphasized that precisely the axiological (value) component is decisive in the notional structure of the concept.