COOPERATORS AS PART OF THE FIRST MEMBERSHIP OF THE GENERAL SECRETARIAT OF UKRAINE: TO THE BIOGRAPHICAL PORTRAIT

Abstract

The topic of the study is the ideological background of the Ukrainian cooperation. Edges of activity of such progressive worldview carriers as the cooperators are revealed. Most of them became the victims of The Great Purge of Stalin. This article analyses the following questions: “the appreciation of the cooperation of XIX — XX centuries”; “why it became the source of providing the personnel for the National revolution”. Personalities of ministers-cooperators as part of the first Ukrainian government are introduced. It is stated that Ukrainian cooperation was the center of the patriotic forces. The half of the first membership of The General Secretariat of Ukraine was composed of cooperators such as Khrystophor Baranovskiy, Mykola Stasyuk, Borys Martos and Pavlo Khrystyuk. They were educated and authoritative people. They had a rich experience and active national views. The Soviet power didn’t need people with such characteristics. The lessons of the historical experience and study of traditions of the Ukrainian cooperation will help to add certain traits to the socio-economic and political development of Ukraine.