Громадсько-політична та наукова діяльність М. Стахіва: джерелознавчий огляд

Abstract

In the article a source study basis of the research of the socio-political activity of one of the most famous characters of socio-political processes in Western Ukraine in the interwar period of the 20th century – Matvii Stakhiv is analysed. It is pointed out that there is a whole range of source materials for investigating M. Stakhiv’s socio-political and scientific activity. The comprehensive study of Stakhiv's socio-political and scientific activity is impossible without the involvement of six groups of documents for the scientific circulation: 1) the materials of state authorities, provincial departments, county chief’s and police about the political situation, the activities of political parties in Western Ukraine; 2) documents Ukrainian parties, their record keeping documents; 3) documents of Ukrainian emigre scientific and political institutions; 4) materials of the Ukrainian and Polish press; 5) memoirs and diaries of well-known socio-political figures, scientists and civil servants of the Second Polish Republic; 6) M. Stakhiv's scientific and scientific-journalistic studies. The authors have come to the conclusion that the combination of the mentioned sources with the multiplanned scientific literature makes it possible to characterize in detail not only M. Stakhiv’s socio-political and scientific activity but also to investigate thoroughly socio-political life in Western Ukraine in the given period.