Lonhyn Tsehelsky
Lonhyn Tsehelsky (
Biography
Life under Austria
Tsehelsky was born into a
Longin Tsegelsky mentioned in the "Talergofskiy almanac", as a prosecution witness at the
Activities during the struggle for independence
When western Ukraine became independent he became Secretary of Internal Affairs and the Secretary of Foreign Affairs within the government of the
Exile
In 1920 he was sent to the United States as a diplomatic representative of the Western Ukrainian government and settled in Philadelphia, where he edited the Ukrainian newspaper Ameryka. Tsehelsky was one of the founders of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America, a union of 20 Ukrainian organizations within the United States. He died in Philadelphia in 1950.[1]
Political theories
In 1902 Tsehelsky published Rus’-Ukraïna but Moskovshchyna-Rossia (Rus-Ukraine but Moscow-Russia) which had a significant impact on Ukrainian ideas in both Galicia and in Russian-ruled Ukraine.[1] In this book he highlighted differences that he claimed existed between Ukrainians and Russians in order to show that any union between the two peoples was impossible. Tsehelsky claimed that Ukrainians historically wanted self-rule, while Russians historically sought servitude. Tsehelsky wrote that Ukrainians who opposed Ivan Mazepa were traitors and that Ukrainian history consisted of a constant struggle of Ukrainian attempts at autonomy in opposition to Russian attempts to impose centralization.[4]
References
- ^ a b c d Tsehelsky, Lonhyn Encyclopedia of Ukraine volume 5 (1993). Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta
- ^ ТАЛЕРГОФСКIЙ АЛЬМАНАXЪ ПРОПАМЯТНАЯ КНИГА австрiйскихъ жестокостей, изуверстствъ и насилий надъ карпато-русскимъ народомъ во время Bceмiрной войны 1914 - 1917 гг. Выпускъ второй. Терроръ въ Галичинѣ. Терроръ въ Буковинѣ. Отзвуки печати. Терезинъ, Гминдъ, Гнасъ и др. Беллетристика. ЛЬВОВЪ 1925. Стр. 147-148 (in Russian).
- ^ Christopher Gilley (2006). A Simple Question of ‘Pragmatism’? Sovietophilism in the West Ukrainian Emigration in the 1920s Archived 2007-09-30 at the Wayback Machine Working Paper: Koszalin Institute of Comparative European Studies pp.6–13
- ^ Stephen Velychenko. (1992). National history as cultural process: a survey of the interpretations of Ukraine's past in Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian historical writing from the earliest times to 1914. Edmonton, Alberta: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta p. 175