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
  • Persecuted bandurists
  • Union for the Freedom of Ukraine process

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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