UAPA
See: UNLAWFUL ACTIVITIES PREVENTION ACT
UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle)
A common term used by the U.S. military to refer to military drones.
UKRAINIAN COMMUNIST PARTY [UKAPISTS]
An opposition party to the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine from 1920 to 1925. The
nickname “Ukapists” comes from the Anglicized Ukrainian initials of this party, UKP. The
Ukapists were a split-off from the Ukrainian Social Democratic Labor Party in January 1919,
and initially called themselves the Socialists-Sovereignists. They had a strong nationalistic
orientation, though they did favor some type of an alliance with other Soviet republics in a
sort of European socialist federation. In its newspaper Chervony Prapor the UCP
strongly criticized the Ukrainian Bolsheviks as being subservient to the Russian Bolsheviks
in Moscow.
Besides their initial Sovereignist core the
Ukapists included many former left-Socialist Revolutionary Borotbists,
and some people, such as Yuri Lapchinsky, who had left the CP(B)U for nationalist reasons.
In 1923 a faction of the UCP requested unification with the Bolshevik party. In 1920 and again
in 1924 the UCP asked the Communist International for affiliation
as the representative of Ukraine. The Comintern rejected this application and said that since
Ukraine was already a sovereign state within the USSR, the UCP should dissolve itself
and merge into the CP(B)U. At its Fourth Congress the UCP did formally dissolve itself, and
some members, including its leader Andri Richitsky, did join the CP(B)U. During the early
1930s at least some of the former Ukapists were purged from the Bolsheviks, and some were
apparently exiled to Siberia or else executed.
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