MYKOLA LEBED: ACQUISITION AND LOSS OF GOVERNING LEADERSHIP IN THE OUN (SEPTEMBER 1941 – MAY 1943)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17721/1728-2640.2024.158.2
Keywords:
Lebed, OUN, Shukhevych, national liberation struggle, Revolutionary LeadershipAbstract
Background. The aim of the research is to study, analyze and cover the circumstances and reasons for Mykola Lebed's occupation and loss of the position of ruling leader in the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists of Independent Statesmen (Revolutionary Leadership of the OUN).
Results. The scientific novelty of the article is to reveal the little-known pages of the history of the Revolutionary Leadership of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists in general and the place and role of Mykola Lebed in its leadership in particular. It directly concerns the circumstances of M. Lebed's tenure and loss of the position of the ruling leader of the OUN, the emergence and exacerbation of contradictions in his vision of policy and internal functioning of the Organization with other members of the OUN leadership, including M. Prokop, I. Klymiv, R. Shukhevych and others.
Conclusions. It was established that the main reason for removing M. Lebed from the post of the ruling leader of the OUN was his methods of leadership in the leadership of the Organization, as well as differences with individual members of the OUN leadership in tactics and strategy of the OUN in repression against nationalist revolutionaries and hostilities and the German war against the Soviet Union on the territory of Ukraine, etc. It has been established that on a personal level M. Lebed entered into a sharp conflict with M. Prokop ("Volodymyr", "Garmash") and with I. Klymiv ("Legend"). Soon deep contradictions with R. Shukhevych ("Tour"), D. Mayevsky ("Kosar", "Taras") and Z. Matla ("Dniprovyi") led to the separate deprivation of M. Lebed ("Ruban") of the levers of government and leadership an Organization that was legitimized in August 1943 by the decision of the Third (Extraordinary) Great Assembly of the OUN.
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