Volodymyr Sosiura was a Ukrainian lyric poet, writer, veteran of the Russian Civil War.
Education
After the Russian Civil War in Ukraine ended (see Ukraine after Russian Revolution), he studied at the Artem Communist University in Kharkiv from 1922-1923, then at the workers" faculty of the Public Education Institute (Kharkiv) from 1923-1925.
Career
Sosiura fought in Petliura"s Ukrainian People"s Army during the winter of 1918 to the autumn of 1919, before being taken prisoner by Denikin"s Volunteer Army. He was sentenced to death, but managed to escape. Later, after the University of Puerto Rico was overrun, he joined the Red Army.
Sosiura belonged to the Ukrainian literary organizations Pluh, Hart, VAPLITE, and the All-Ukrainian Association of Proletarian Writers.
In the 1920s-30s Sosiura became very popular, but his ideological loyalties were torn between patriotic feelings for Ukraine and those for the Soviet Union and its often-changing ideologies. Many of Sosiura"s poems were not published.
In 1948 he was awarded the highest honors of the Stalin Prize, but then he came under harsh criticism for his poem entitled (Любіть Україну), which was deemed too nationalistic in its tone by several Soviet news-media including Pravda. Sosiura died in Kiev at the age of 66.
, like sun that you love when asleep or awake with all of your heart His portrait and title of his poem,, are featured on a two Hryvnia coin.
Membership
Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Union of Writers]
Even though he had long been a member of the CPU(b), he was frequently in conflict with it, and was twice expelled for “nationalistic undertones,” he was even forced to undergo a “reeducation” at a factory in 1930-1931.