Revolutionary Ukrainian Party

The Revolutionary Ukrainian Party ( Революційна українська партія, РУП ) was the first political party in the Russian Empire at that time associated Central and Eastern Ukraine. The party was founded by the Ukrainian student unions in 1900 in Kharkiv as a secret revolutionary organization. The RUP was a mother party, from the several Ukrainian parties, mostly socialist and social democratic direction, emerged later.

Policy program

First, the RUP was a speech from Kharkiv lawyer Mykola Michnowskyj, which he had held in 1900 to commemorate the birthday and anniversary of the death of the Ukrainian national poet Taras Shevchenko ( March 9 and 10 ) in Kharkiv and Poltava as its political program. Michnowkyj was not a member of the RUP, but his speech has taken on behalf of their leadership and as its political program. In the speech, calling for " a unified, indivisible, free, sovereign Ukraine from the Carpathians to the Caucasus," which was made ​​and the next target of the " regaining the rights that were granted us by the Constitution of Perejaslav 1654, with extension of their validity over the whole area of the Ukrainian people " set. 1902 split the nationalist right wing off due to the abandonment of the goal of complete political independence of Ukraine from the RUP and founded the Ukrainian People's Party ( UNP) led by Mykola Michnowskyj. At the same time criticized the party left " lack of socialism " in the initial party program, were initially excluded from all economic and social issues in the. This led in 1903 to split off the also founded in 1900 and later merged with the RUP Ukrainian Socialist Party ( USP).

In 1903, the RUP had turned away from the demand for a completely independent Ukrainian state, in favor of a mere national autonomy for the Ukrainians in the Russian Empire. Since this departure from the nationalist positions, the RUP took more and more of the features of a social democratic party. In the same year she published in the party newspaper " Haslo " ( the slogan ) their new programmatic principles based on the Erfurt Programme of the SPD from 1891. In 1904, her representatives took part in the Congress of the Socialist International in Amsterdam part.

The first Congress of the RUP in 1904 brought the split in the party with him. A cosmopolitan set minority joined in 1905 the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party, and existed as an autonomous Ukrainian section until 1913, the nationalist -minded majority under the leadership of Mykola Porsch and Symon Petljura changed the second party congress the party name in Ukrainian social Democratic workers' Party ( USDRP ) and adopted the technology based on the Erfurt Program of the SPD party program with the requirement of national autonomy for Ukraine.

Known representatives

  • Symon Wassyljowytsch Petljura
  • Volodymyr Wynnytschenko
  • Dmytro Antonowytsch
  • Mykola Porsch
  • Volodymyr Tschechiwskyj
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