Lev Aleksandrovich Okinshevich (pseudonym - Leo Yaresh; January 25, 1898 , St. Petersburg - November 7, 1980 , Gilcrest Hills , Maryland , USA ) - Soviet and American lawyer, researcher of state institutions of the Hetman. One of the leaders of American Ukrainian studies in the postwar period. Also a developer of Belarusian legal terminology. By nationality - Belarusian.
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Biography
Born in a mixed Belarusian-Czech family. He studied at the College of Paul Galagan, after graduating from the school of ensigns - on the Romanian front of the First World War.
He graduated from the Law Faculty of the Kiev Institute of National Economy in 1921 , where he was transferred from Kiev University, which was disbanded by the Communists. On the recommendation of Academician N. Vasilenko, he worked as a scientist, an employee of the Commission to study the history of West Russian and Ukrainian law of the SUA . In 1922 - 1929 served as Secretary of the Commission. At the same time ( 1925 - 1928 ) he studied at the graduate school of the Scientific Research Department of the History of Ukraine of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine . Since 1929 - director of the publishing house of the AUAS , and since 1931 - the deputy secretary of the Social and Economic Department of the AUAN.
Since the beginning of the Famine, it has been subjected to sweeping criticism from the Soviet regime. Since 1933 - professor of history at the Nezhin Pedagogical Institute, where he temporarily took refuge from the NKVD. But in November of that year, at the insistence of Stalin's special services, he was removed from office as unreliable. After that, he actually fled from Ukraine, worked as a legal adviser in Kazakhstan, breaking off all academic ties:
During the Second World War , he was forcibly mobilized, captured in Ukraine, but moved to Kiev in the occupied territory, where he was able to resume his research activities at the Law Faculty of Kiev University, worked as a legal adviser in the Kyiv City Government, and was a collaborator. In 1943 he left for Germany. He was elected dean of the law faculty of the Ukrainian Free University in Munich . In June 1949 he moved to the United States , he lived permanently in New York. From 1954 to 1969 he worked as a cataloger and librarian at the Library of Congress ( Washington ). He took part in the activities of the NLO in America, the Society of Ukrainian Lawyers in the United States and a number of second scientific institutions of Ukrainian emigration.
Works
- Okinshevich Leo / Introduction to the Law of Law, Munich: Ukrainian Free University; with. Textbooks, p. 10, 1987, p. 223 / 1917-1920 / B-103
- Okinshevich Lev / My academic work in Ukraine, Lviv: NTSH, 1995, ISBN 5-7707-8503-9 , p. 88/4254 / B-364
- Okinshevich Leo / Review of the History of Philosophy of Law, Part 1, Munich: Ukrainian Free University, 1948, p. 130 /
Scientific recognition of Okinshevich was brought by his works on the history of state law, the development of state-legal institutions of Ukraine-Hetmanism, problems of the methodology of legal science: " Petty Officer Council in the Hetmanism" ( 1924 ), " General Petty Officer in Left-Bank Ukraine XVII — XVIII centuries. "( 1926 )," Central institutions of Ukraine-Hetmanism of the XVII — XVIII centuries. "(Parts 1-2, 1929 - 1930 )," Lectures on the history of Ukrainian law. State law. The era of estate society ”( 1947 ),“ Significant military society in Ukraine - Hetmanism of the 17th-18th centuries ”,“ Overview of the history of the philosophy of law ”(both - 1948 ),“ Introduction to the science of law and the state ”( 1949 ) and others. A number of the scientist’s works are published in the Belarusian language, he has scientific priorities in the study of rights, the status of the Belarusian Cossacks, the problems of the formation of Belarusian legal terminology. He also owns works of a bibliographic nature, in particular an analysis of the historiography of the USSR on the history of the United States and Latin America. “My academic work in Ukraine” ( 1955 ).
The author of detailed autobiographical memoirs “Memoirs of a dying man” (1977-1980, published in 1995 in Lviv).
Sources and Literature
- "S. Belokon". Okinshevich Lev // Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine: in 10 volumes / editorial board: V. A. Smoliy (chairman) and others; Institute of History of Ukraine NAS of Ukraine. - K.: Science. Thought, 2010. - T. 7 Ml - A. - S. 555. - ISBN 978-966-00-1061-1 .
- "Yad Y." Lev Okinshevich - an outstanding historian of the state. Rights of Ukraine- Hetman HUP-HUSH centuries. ( 1898 - 1980 ). N.-Y.-Munich, 1985 .
- V.N. Yaremchuk Historian of Ukrainian law Lev Okinshevich. Journal of the National University "Ostrog Academy", Series "Law". - 2012. - No2 (6)