Union for the Liberation of Ukraine
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The Union for the Liberation of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Союз визволення України, СВУ; Soyuz vyzvolennia Ukrayiny, SVU) was a political organization that was established on 4 August 1914 in Lemberg, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria.[1] The organization was established by Ukrainian emigrants from the Russia-held Dnieper Ukraine and who were socialist by their political views representing such political parties like Revolutionary Ukrainian Party (RUP), Ukrainian Social Democratic Workers Party (USDRP), "Spilka" Socialist-Democratic ("Fellowship").[1] The organization was headed by its presidium that consisted of Andriy Zhuk, Volodymyr Doroshenko, Oleksandr Skoropys-Yoltukhovskyi, and Markian Melenevskyi.[1]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c Lavrov, Yu. Union for the Liberation of Ukraine, SVU (СОЮЗ ВИЗВОЛЕННЯ УКРАЇНИ (СВУ)). Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine.
Sources
[edit]- Roman Malko, "Music from the shadows", Zerkalo Nedeli, September 14–20, 2002. in Russian, in Ukrainian.
- Kuromiya Hiroaki , The Voices of the Dead - Stalin's Great Terror in the 1930s, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2007, ISBN 0300123892.
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- Kobzarstvo
- Ukrainian independence movement
- 1914 in Ukraine
- Lviv in World War I
- 1914 establishments in Austria-Hungary
- 1918 disestablishments in Austria-Hungary
- Ukrainian political parties in Austria-Hungary
- Establishments in the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria
- Defunct secessionist organizations
- Anti-Russian sentiment
- Ukraine in World War I
- Ukrainian history stubs