Union for the Liberation of Ukraine

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]


Herald of the Union for the Liberation of Ukraine

See also

References
  1. Lavrov, Yu. Union for the Liberation of Ukraine, SVU (СОЮЗ ВИЗВОЛЕННЯ УКРАЇНИ (СВУ)). Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine.

Sources
  • 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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