ACR paragraph. Arseniy Fedosiuk

Argument	Counterargument	Rebuttal
Central Council of Ukraine was established by the old Ukrainian intelligentsia represented by the Association of Ukrainian Progressives together with socialistic organizations	determining role in development of the Central Council belonged to nationalistic movement	-          no documental evidence; -          inability of independentists to promote such activity

The question of development of the Central Council of Ukraine being a central issue of Ukrainian revolution caused great historical discussions that were held in last 60 years and it resulted in a conception according to which Central Council was established by old Ukrainian intelligentsia in collaboration with socialist circles. After numerous studies, involving large arrays of documents, were performed concerning this issue, Ukrainian historiography with all the confidence claims that the very idea of the formation of Central Council should be credited to Association of Ukrainian Progressives and social-democratic groups of D. Antonovych. It means that overall ideological basis and background of Central Council can be described as socialistic. Though, some historians refused to accept such point of view. They proposed alternative concept based on which the determining role was attributed to nationalist movement – either to Ukrainian National-Democratic party with leadership of M. Michnovskiy, or fictional Brotherhood of Ukrainian Independentists. Such ideas, promoted generally by P. Mirchuk, became a subject of considerable dispute and most researches opposed to him. Fundamental points of his theory stumble on discrepancy with official documentaries and memoirs of the leaders of Ukrainian revolution, even though beginning with the fact that nationalistic movement in 1917 was in an incipient state, just started to develop its organizational and ideological ground and was far away from political arena. And after all there is no documentary confirmation of such theory, which, on the other hand, takes place in the case of first conception.