ADMINISTRATIVE AND FINANCIAL ACTIVITY OF THE UKRAINIAN DELEGATION MANAGEMENT AT THE PARIS PEACE CONFERENCE 1919-1920 FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF A NEW HISTORICAL SOURCE

Abstract

The article highlights some organizational activities which provided personnel and financial support for UPR delegation’s work in the Paris Peace Conference 1919–1920. This work consisted of efforts to gain UPR’s independence recognition by leading and others states of the world; to get them to take into consideration interests of the Ukrainian people, because of the postwar geopolitical changes in Central Europe; to cooperate in political, military, commercial and economic fields with other countries. It characterizes main directions of personnel part of this work – the dynamics in personnel changes, efforts to engage qualified specialists and technical workers, control over delegation members’ business trips, financial expenses aimed at executing tasks, which were given to the delegation.