RELATIONS OF THE PLAST WITH THE INTERNATIONAL BUREAU AND CZECH SCOUTS IN THE INTER-WAR PERIOD

The article aims to study the relations of the Ukrainian Plast movement with the International Bureau and the Czech Scout Association in the 1920s and 1930s to analyze forms of cooperation and exchange of experience. The study's methodological basis involves using both general and special scientific research methods, particularly problem-chronological, structural-logical, typological and diachronic analysis. The scientific novelty of the work lies in the fact that for the first time, based on the memoirs of Plast participants in international youth events, an analysis of inter-organizational relations between Plast and other associations and historical figures, was conducted, supplemented by the history of Czech-Ukrainian scout intra-organizational relations in the interwar period. Conclusions. In the 1920s–1930s, representatives of Ukrainian scouting carried out active international communication activities with other youth associations in Europe. The first attempt to establish contact with the scouting «centre» was the correspondence of Ukrainian Plast girls with the secretary of the International Council of Guides, S.V. Riede, regarding their participation in the V International Guide Conference held in 1928 in Hungary. Although the dialogue did not achieve its goal, the Ukrainian organisation firmly stated that Ukrainians were also an integral part of the World Scout Youth movement. Transcarpathian Plast, a member of Czechoslovakia's internationally recognized Scout Federation, repeatedly participated in various jamborees. At them, Plast girls directly contacted representatives of other scouting delegations and communicated with famous figures, particularly politicians of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic. The latter had a different attitude towards Ukrainians: a probable reason could be their ideological views. The relations between Plast girls and Czech scouts were heterogeneous and dynamic. Working in the same organisation, they represented the Czechoslovak Republic internationally. The memoirs of the jamboree participants describe both their joint, friendly Czech-Ukrainian interaction and conflict situations, the tendency of which increased towards the end of the 1930s.