Ukrainian Party of Independent Socialists

The structure of the UPRS included members of the former Ukrainian People's Party , military personnel, non-partisan, uniting around the Union of Ukrainian statehood.

A. Makarenko was elected Chairman of the UCCS, I. Lutsenko (representative of the Free Cossacks ), A. Andrievsky , P. Makarenko, secretaries I. Andrushchenko, Andrus, V. Zaichenko-Zhadko were elected as the companions of the chairman (deputies).

The press organs of the UPSS were the weekly newspaper Samostiynik, the daily newspapers Samostiynaya Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukrainskie Vesti (Ternopol), Ukrainska on the Right, and Ukrainska Delo (Rivne).

The party program was adopted at the UPSPS congress, the main principles of which were:

• immediate proclamation of an independent (independent) Ukrainian People’s Republic,
• land transfer to Ukrainian farmers, farmers, and factories to Ukrainian workers.

The party advocated the transfer of land to peasants for temporary use at a labor rate. Land reform should be carried out in stages: first, large land ownership was liquidated, then medium land ownership, then small. The ultimate goal of the reform was to be the national socialization of the land, the creation of the All-Ukrainian Land Fund. The main condition for successful land reform was the creation of an independent Ukrainian People's Republic .

The UPSPS program provided for the holding on a democratic basis of general elections to the Ukrainian parliament , the body of the highest legislative power.

The head of the executive branch of the republic was the president, who approved the government - the Council of Ministers.

The program was supplemented by resolutions adopted at the congress on land, labor, administrative, judicial, religious and other issues.

The influence of the OSS on the activities of the Ukrainian Central Rada was limited.

The socialist majority of the UCR considered it a bourgeois-landlord party. At the end of 1917, the UPSS proposed the creation of a military government led by autocrats, essentially advocating the introduction of a national military dictatorship.

After the coup of P. Skoropadsky in April 1918, the UPRS was in opposition to the Ukrainian sovereign policy of the hetman .

In May 1918 was part of the Ukrainian National-State Union. A. Andrievsky was the representative of the UPSS in the government during the period of the UNR Directory .

Some members of the UPSS were members of the governments of V. Chekhovsky and S. Ostapenko , including M. Belinsky , I. Lipa , A. Osetskiy , D. Simonov , A. Shapoval .

Due to inconsistency with the socialist majority of the UNR Directory, on September 2, 1919, members of the UPRS made an unsuccessful attempt at a coup d'etat led by ataman V. Oskilko . On the eve of the coup, a split occurred in the party.

After the defeat, the OPSS virtually ceased operations.

Separate members of the UPRS on behalf of the party continued to work in the New Rada (Council) of the Republic .

In January 1920, by a resolution of the Central Committee of the UPRS, important changes were made to the agrarian part of the party program. They provided for the parceling of large land ownership with the transfer of land for the purchase of landless and low-land Ukrainian peasants, their association in cooperatives .

In exile in early 1920, the UPRS tried to resume its activities in Vienna , but from 1922 changed its name to the Ukrainian People’s Party, which tried to become active in Volyn under the leadership of Vladimir Oskilko, acted for some time and published the newspaper Dzvin in Rivne (1923-1925), then disappeared from the political map of Ukraine.

• PROGRAM UKRAINIAN PARTY SELF-STATE-SOCIAL_STIV (Ukrainian)