THE INFLUENCE OF THE ZBORIV MILITARY CAMPAIGN OF 1649 ON THE STATE-BUILDING FACTOR OF THE HETMANSHIP

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of the military-tactical course of the Zboriv campaign and its historical and legal consequences. The chronological sequence of the military strategic operation and military-historical aspects of the Battle of Zboriv are also considered. The direct role of the agreement in the history of state and legal phenomena and processes is clarified and outlined. The general significance of the essential causal relations of foreign policy, the formation of the tendency of development of the further essence of legal relations during the years of the national revolution is highlighted. In addition, the article summarizes the main conditions Treaty of Zboriv, its socio-political influence on the territory of the Ukrainian Cossack state, as well as the formation of the historical and legal state-building factor. The consequences of the Zboriv campaign, as one of the stages of the liberation war, embody a complex of social transformations, generalize new forms of state unity, while highlighting a clear awareness of the national self-identification of society. Based on the events of 1649, aspects of Bohdan Khmelnytsky’s state-building program within the ethnic borders of Ukraine were improved, which, in turn, influenced the further evolution of the socio-political system of its form of government and the strengthening of legal diplomatic relations. After all, it was during the national revolution that the perfect form of the regimental-hundredth order of command of the Cossack army was formed, and new strata of the Ukrainian social system appeared, which stimulated the process of improving the national legal system. Subject to the signing of the Zboriv Agreement between the Cossack Hetmanate and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Kyiv, Chernihiv, and Bratslav voivodships came under the jurisdiction of the Cossack administration, where the Cossack judicial system and court jurisdiction were formed. Particular attention is paid to the leading provisions of the treaty and the law-making significance for the further development of the Hetmanate. The fundamental regularities of the origin and functioning of the basic political and ideological principles of national statehood under specific historical conditions are determined.