Ukrainian self-determination in geopolitical plans of the victorious countries in World War I

У статті досліджується процес формування політичними колами країн-переможниць у Першій світовій війні позиції щодо державницького самовизначення українців. Автор звертає увагу на особливості та зумовленість позиції кожної з Головних Держав у питанні самовизначення українців, які проживали на етнічних територіях у складі як Російської імперії, так і Австро-Угорської імперії.The author pays attention to principally different positions of the countries-winners in the First World War regarding the possibility of Ukrainians living on Russian and Austrian ethnic territories to realize their right to express their identity. The author starts his analysis with the closing period of war when there was an urgent need for defining the international political status of the Russian Empire which was experiencing revolutionary transformations. Austrian-Hungarian Empire also faced the need for political transformation and reestablishment of the whole Central Europe. The author argues that it is simply impossible to ignore the problem of self-identification of Ukrainian nation in the system of international relations during the closing period of the First World War and after-war period. With the help of peaceful Brest-Litovsk Treaties between the countries of the Fourth International Unity and the Ukrainian National Republic and Soviet Russia there were created the legal foundations of Ukrainian self-identification on the territories of the Western Ukraine. During the closing war period Ukraine actively took part as a subject in the system of international economic relations. That is why, not only the basis of political statehood was created, but also economical prerequisites which could not have been ignored