Political trials (processes) in interwar East Galicia and Poland, 1918-1939 Political Narratives http://www.lamoth.info/?p=collections/controlcard&id=137 Political trials in interwar East Galicia as well as in interwar Poland were intrinsic to ethno-national and political narrative of the time. Unsettled issues of national minorities, tensions between the extreme wings of Ukrainian national democratic camp and Polish state, communist activities, indisposition between Polish national democrats and Polish socialists and political center, a precarious social and political insufficiency of Jewish political discourse, all in all cause violent response from multiple political forces. Summary tribunals eventually replaced by jury trials frequented interwar Polish political milieu regrettably often. Some trails caused national and foreign attention the other mattered for regional politics and ethno-national interaction. Political and criminal trials in a sense described by a German term Prozess perhaps served as an outlet of public discourse and a broadcast of conflicting opinions. The main player on the stage of political assassinations and related crimes were members of Ukrainian nationalistic organizations, members of communist organizations, Polish Right-Wing organization known as Endecja as well as Jews who largely were tried in the capacity of communist affiliation or as a result of political entanglement to what the Steiger Trial is a perfect example. Excerpts Political trials in interwar East Galicia as well as in Poland were a common ethnopolitical discourse of the time. This Record Groups relates to political processes (trials) in a form of jury trials against largely individuals or group of national and political minorities or against the otherness. The otherness comprises here Ukrainian nationalists and communists. Ukrainian radicals associated with Ukrainian national independence movement largely were tried for political murders. They committed crimes against Ukrainian and Polish officials in the name Ukrainian national idea of independence and rejection of legitimacy of Polish administration over East Galicia. East Galician (West Ukrainian) communists comprise as it was once put "a Jewish and Ukrainian intrigue," Ukrainians, Jews and Poles. East Galician communist movement only partially resembled a Bolshevik ideology, overall this political party was longing for a national communism, rather than pure Soviet style authoritarian communist regime. The following political assassinations perpetrated by the Ukrainian nationalist organized groups are presented here by the means of national and political discourses reflected in Ukrainian, Jewish and Polish periodicals of interwar Poland.