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The study focuses on the history of Poles living in Ukraine at the turn of the XIX and XX centuries, in the period between the two great world wars, and, most importantly, on their influence on the culture and development of Ukrainian society in these difficult times. The authors focus on the Ukrainian provinces that administratively covered the territories located mainly on the left bank of the Dnipro River, where there were no compact Polish settlements, and the colonies that were formed later were the result of migration processes.

The authors debunk the myth that the only reason for the resettlement was the repression of tsarist Russia. It is shown that the reason for these movements was a variety of events, the political, social and economic situation, which significantly influenced migration processes. The work examines in great detail the number, size, social composition, and dynamics of Polish settlements in the mentioned territory, emphasising that all these factors usually depended on the attractiveness of a particular region.

The chronological framework of the monograph is quite clear: the starting point is 1832, when a Roman Catholic parish was established in Kharkiv, which is a turning point in the process of forming Polish colonies in these territories, and the end date is the signing of the peace treaty between the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Soviet Russia in Riga in March 1921.