Background
VINNICHENKO, Vladimir was born on July 26, 1880 in Kherson Province. Son of a hired shepherd.
Ukrainian writer and politician
VINNICHENKO, Vladimir was born on July 26, 1880 in Kherson Province. Son of a hired shepherd.
Studied at Kiev University. Studied at Kiev University.
Studied at Yelisavetgrad high school. Quit 7th grade and set out to roam the Ukraine, earning his living by day-laboring. 1901 entered Kiev University, joined Rcvol Ukraine Party circles and engaged in propaganda among workers.
1902 arrested and imprisoned for a while in Kiev. Released but barred from resuming university studies. Became active Revol Ukraine party agent and engaged in propaganda among peasantry.
As an expelled student, drafted into Russian Army but soon deserted and went to Galicia, where he worked for socialist periodicals and organized the dispatch of revol lit to the Ukraine. Arrested in the course of one of these smuggling expeditions and again imprisoned in Kiev. Then transferred to Kiev Fortress and placed in solitary confinement.
1904 released from fortress arrest under an amnesty but assigned to disciplinary battalion. 1904 again went abroad and worked for Social-Democratic organ “Selyanin”. 1905 returned illegally to Ukraine and moved from one area to another, hiring out as a farm laborer and organizing farmhands’ strikes, which played an important role in the 1905 Rcvol in the Ukraine.
Addresed workers’ rallies in Poltava. After schism in Revol Ukraine Party he became one of the leaders of its majority faction, reorganized into the Ukraine Social-Democratic Workers' Party (Ukraine SDRP). After suppression of 1905-1907 Revol again arrested and interned for third time in Luk’yanovka Prison.
Released on bail pending trial. 1907 emigrated; attended Stockholm Congress of Ukraine SDRP and elected to its Central Committee. Until 1914 lived in several European countries.
During this period gained recognition as a writer in the Ukraine and Russia. His novels and novelettes were translated into Russian and his plays were staged in major Russian cities. 1914 returned illegally to Ukraine to establish liaison with local Ukraine SDRP organizations.
With start of World War 1 lived illegally in Yckaterinoslav and Moscow and published anti-war pamphlets. After suppression of Ukraine press, he collaborated with Professor Grushevskiy and others in Moscow to publish sole legal Ukraine journal “Promin”’. After 1917 February Revol left Moscow for Kiev, where he established Ccntr Ukraine SDRP organ “Robitnnycha hazeta”.
End helped found Ukraine Centr Rada. June 1917 elected chairman, Secretariat-General, Centr Rada Government. Then on behalf of Centr Rada negotiated with Russian Provisional Government and signed an agreement with it on the basis of its declaration recognizing Ukraine autonomy.
Drafted 3rd and 4th Universal, proclaiming an independent Ukraine People’s Republic. Headed its government and also conducted unofficial talks with Rakovskiy and Manuil’skiy, leaders of the Soviet peace deleg. November 1918 — February 1919 headed Ukraine Directory.
1919-1920 in emigration, organized Foreign Group, Ukraine Communist Party and on its behalf published newspaper “Nova doba”. Summer 1920 went to Moscow, then to Ukraine and negotiated admission to Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Ukraine and Soviet Ukraine Government. For a few days he was a member of Soviet Ukraine Government as People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs fand deputy chairman, Ukraine Council of People’s Commissar.
Also member, Central Committee, Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Ukraine. Refused admission to Political Bureau, Central Committee, Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Ukraine, he resigned all his posts and returned abroad. From 1920 lived in France, where he concentrated on lit work.
Wrote numerous stories, novelettes and novels.
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