MOBILIZATION OF UKRAINIAN POPULATION TO THE MILITARY FORCES OF WUPR: ORGANIZATION, PROBLEMS, CONSEQUENCES (NOVEMBER-DECEMBER, YEAR 1918)

Abstract

The article is devoted to the problem, related to the personnel of the Galician military forces of WUPR formation in November and December of the year 1918. Being based on the rich historical data the conclusion has been made that on the territory of the WUPR during the first four months of its existence two general and a number of local partial mobilizations of male population were taken. It made possible for the Military Forces to be provided with human resources to a greater or lesser degree. The mobilization process as a complex of all necessary actions both in the center and periphery was not always well-organized, effective and well-planned, had certain differences in different districts, indicating a number of problems with readiness of men to defend the republic with arms as well as with their trining, equipment and use of recruits that was connected with state discipline violation, acute deficit of authority staff, improper work of the expected organs, their miscalculations and loss of control over the part of the Ukrainian territory, and the last but not the least the complexities of the state and military construction in the WUPR. With time and experience mobilizing structures that lacked professional training and responsibility fulfilled their tasks at the more or less satisfactory level resulting in the number of Military Forces of not less than 11-12 thousand members. At the same time negative phenomena connected with the work of state structures as to organization and conducting of the forced mobilization of men to the troops at the level: center – military region – military district – community. Lack of the patriotic learning of the adults also produced its negative effect. Avoiding mobilization, deserting military forces were a usual thing. Key words: WUPR, State secretary of military affairs, community commissar, mobilization, recruits, training, organizational problem.