ПАНТЕЛЕЙМОН БЛОНСЬКИЙ – УКРАЇНСЬКИЙ СОЦІАЛ-ДЕМОКРАТ ІЗ ПОДІЛЛЯ ТА СЕЛЯНСТВО НА ПОЧАТКУ ХХ СТ

Abstract

Introduction. The article is dedicated to
Panteleimon Blonskyi, a representative of the
Ukrainian social-democratic and national liberation
movements in Podillya. The relevance of the research is
justified by the need to study the history of social
communities and people; to fill the Ukrainian
biographical archive with unknown and little-known
figures of the past and, through the person of the
Ukrainian Social Democrat, to show the activity of this
party among the peasantry.
Purpose. The purpose of this article is to clarify the
initial, Podilskyi period of life of P. Blonskyi as well as
his activity among the peasantry.
Results. It is found out that P. Blonskyi came from
the nobility of Podilskyi province and belonged to that
small part of it, which did not lose its national identity
and considered its duty to carry out work aimed at
national and social liberation of the working class of
Ukraine. It is established that his social and political
activity began in his student years, when he studied at
the Medical Department of the University of Warsaw
and was the Deputy Chairman of the Ukrainian student
community in Warsaw. The main attention is paid to the
various activities of P. Blonskyi in the Podilskyi
province in 1905–1907. During the development of the
peasant movement, he actively worked on the
unification of the peasantry in the All-Russian Peasant
Union, an independent socio-political organization.
During the elections to the State Duma, P. Blonskyi
aimed voters at struggle for the democratization of the
political system in the Russian Empire and the solution
to the agrarian issue in the interests of the peasantry. It
is also defined that Kamianets organization of the
USDLP was formed in early 1906 and under the
leadership of P. Blonskyi it managed to organize ten
party cells during the revolution, mainly in rural areas,
which numbered about 170 party members. The
recognition of P. Blonskyi’s merits in his party activity
was his election as a member of the Central Committee
of the USDLP (March, 1907). Another important activity
area of the Ukrainian Social Democrat, which is
reflected in this article, was the consolidation of the
Ukrainian national forces of Podillia and giving an
organized character to the peasant movement, as
evidenced by the record of the meeting in August 16,
1906.
Conclusions. Panteleimon Blonskyi was a leading
member of the USDLP in the Podilskyi province and
directed his activities to organize the peasantry in the
All-Russian Peasant Union. He aimed the farmers at
the fight for the democratization of the political system
in the country and solving the agrarian issue in their
interests. P. Blonsky also took measures to consolidate
Ukrainian figures in Podillia