This book is a reflection of historians of Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Rivne, Lutsk on the socio-political, cultural and educational life of Galicia and Volhynia between the two world wars, under Polish occupation, during the Ukrainian-Polish confrontation - from the war of 1918-1919.
The main direction of the national policy of the Second Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was to ensure the territorial integrity of the revived state with the border along the Zbruch. Warsaw organized repressions against nationalist forces, and also sought to put legal Ukrainian political forces on the rails of agreement. The authorities not only favored polonophile groups, but also artificially formed a Polish-minded national consciousness among the Boyks, Lemkos, Hutsuls, and Polishchuks, and through the system of education and culture tried to implement a policy of national or state assimilation. In this regard, Ukrainian public figures, the Greek Catholic Church were forced to create private schools, cultural and scientific societies, cooperatives that supported the population materially and spiritually.