The article explains the conceptual differences in views between O. Karpenko and adepts of
communist ideology regarding the revolutionary movement in Eastern Halychyna in November
1918 and generated, based on them, scientific, ideological, party, and administrative-organizational
ostracism of the scientist. He bravely defended his innovative views on the revolutionary
process in Eastern Halychyna in November 1918, and struggled for their establishment in
Soviet historiography. Bulling and persecution of O. Karpenko, caused by his reassessment of
the nature of revolutionary events in Eastern Halychyna, is associated with the fundamental
problem of rethinking the conceptual problems of the political history of Ukraine in the first
quarter of the 20th century, which in those days were discussed at the expanded Academic Council
of the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR in Kyiv, where
he spoke and was subjected to merciless criticism. Based on the primary source, reproduced
confrontation of two opposed concepts of the revolutionary movement in Eastern Halychyna
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in October–November 1918, which were expressed and represented by I. Kompaniets and O.
Karpenko, the position in the discussion of the famous scientist F. Shevchenko also clarified.
The decisions of several party meetings of the Institute of Social Sciences aimed at humiliating
the scientist and discrediting his ideas were presented. Analysis of the closed party meetings
of the Institute of May 5–6, 1958, and their decisions are made in detail. There were certain
differences between the interpretation of M. Kravets’ speech at the meeting by Yu. Slyvka and
V. Badiak, and of his actual role in the compromise resolution adopted by the meeting, and the
rejection of the party massacre from O. Karpenko. The spread of his ideas, scientific statements,
and conclusions on events in Western Ukraine in November 1918, and the emergence of ZUNR,
both in the Institute of Social Sciences and among the public, is shown. Attention was paid to
the issue of the attack of the Lviv Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine on
the staff of the Institute, his and the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine
accusations of the Director of the I. Krypiakevych Institute in unsatisfactory work with personnel,
which eventually led to firing O. Karpenko from his job at the Institute of Social Sciences of
the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR.
