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of RSFSR and USSR into a single state.
March, 18 The conclusion of peace treaty of RSFSR,
1921 USSR and Poland in Riga. Poland recognized
the existence of USSR. Poland took the
territories of Chelm Land, Podlesia, Western
Volyn’ and Western Polissya. Other parts of
Right Bank Ukraine were given to USSR.
Eastern Halychyna was a part of Poland.

PART ІV The rule of West Ukrainian People’s Republic
October, 16 The manifesto of Austrian Caesar Carl І,
1918 who proclaimed the change of Austria-
Hungary into the union of states, that is, a
federative state. The manifesto guaranteed
restoration of Polish state and gave no
promises as for Ukrainian state.
October, 18-19 “The council of men of trust” was convoked
1918 in Lviv. It was a meeting of nearly 500
representatives of Ukrainian political parties
of Halychyna and Bukovyna, deputies
(ambassadors) of the parliament and regional
seyms, bishops and public figures. They
elected the Ukrainian National Council as a
supreme organ of power of all lands of
Western Ukraine. Y. Petrushevych, a lawyer,
headed it. Ukrainian National Council in its
manifesto proclaimed, that “the whole
ethnographic region of Ukraine in Austria-
Hungary…represents itself as a Ukrainian
territory…That territory became, according to
constitution, as Ukrainian state…” K.
Levytsky translated the resolution into more
understandable language and at the meeting

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