Ukrainian Democratic Horticultural Party

Ukrainian Democratic Harvest Party (Ukrainian Democratic Harvest Party, Ukrainian Ukrainian Democratic Hliborob Party ), UDHP - a Ukrainian political party of a conservative trend, founded in Lubny in May 1917 on the initiative of S. and V. Shemetov , M. Boyarsky, V. Shklyara, L. Klimova, M. Makarenko, I. Kornienko and others; The constituent assembly was held on June 29, 1917 in Lubny with the participation of 1,500 peasants and 20 landowners. At first the party was called the Ukrainian Democratic Party .

The stated goals: achieving the sovereignty of the Ukrainian people, preserving private property, resolving the land issue by the Ukrainian Soim on the basis of dividing the landowner land for redemption. Based on these principles, members of the organization V. Andrievsky, S. Shemet and V. Lipinsky developed draft programs. The official program was the project prepared by V. Lipinsky (published in October 1917), at the suggestion of which the party was called the Ukrainian Democratic-Harvest Party . The party program provided for the achievement of political independence of Ukraine, the formation of an intellectual elite with a statist consciousness, the development of a democratic project of state structure (in the name of independence, V. Lipinsky temporarily gave up the idea of ​​monarchism). The program proclaimed common civil rights and autocephaly of religious denominations in Ukraine. The economic section provided for the establishment of state control over the national economy, the coexistence of rental and private ownership forms of land ownership. The party defended the idea of ​​creating a united national front for the development of the Ukrainian state. In March 1918, the leadership of the UDHP negotiated with the Ukrainian Central Council on the entry of party members into its composition.

In April 1918, UDHP facilitated the coming to power of P. Skoropadsky . In May 1918, UDHP became part of the Ukrainian National-State Union . In October 1918, participants in the Second Party Congress opposed the conservative economic and foreign policy (for the formation of a federation with Bolshevik Russia) of the hetman’s government and approved the decision to establish contacts with the Ukrainian National Union (the Ukrainian National State Union was called by this time).

During the period of the UNR Directory, a split occurred in the party. In the fight against the Bolsheviks, she sought support from P. Bolbochan and E. Konovalets .

After the liquidation of the Ukrainian People’s Republic and departure to emigration, in the spring of 1920 in Vienna, a group of party leaders (S. Shemet, V. Lipinsky, O. Skoropis-Yoltukhovsky) created the monarchist organization Ukrainian Union of Sovereign Producers (USHD) , others became members of the Council republics. The party did not have its own editions; used the newspaper "Bulletin of the Lubensky public committee." From 1920, a periodic collection of the USKhD with materials on the history of the party was published in Vienna .