 The horror of the First World War jolted him back into writing in 1916, and he produced one more collection, "Zemlia" ("Earth", 1926).During the period of the West Ukrainian National Republic, as a former member of parliament, Stefanyk became the "vice-president" of the Ukrainian National Rada, and in 1919 he went to Kiev for the signing of the agreement with the Ukrainian National Republic on the unification of Ukraine.In 1922 he became the district head of the Ukrainian Radical party.