{"title":"UPA \u0026 the Liberation Struggle","description":"\u003cp\u003eMemoirs, documents and publications on the UPA, the OUN and the Ukrainian liberation struggle.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"mechnyk-stepan-neskoreni-london-1965","title":"Stepas Mednyk. The Unreconciled: A Documentary Novel. London, 1965","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“The events described in the book actually took place. Many of the names and pseudonyms of the fighter-heroes are real.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStepan Mudryk-Mechnik. Unconquered: a documentary account of the heroic struggle of members of the revolutionary OUN \/ foreword by Rostyslav Yendyk.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLondon: Ukrainian Publishers Ltd., 1965. — 288 pp. — 18.2 × 12.3 × 1.5 cm. — Printed by the Ukrainian Publishers Ltd. press in London (Ukrainian Publishers Ltd., 200 Liverpool Rd., London N.1). Title page reproduced in English. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher’s dust jacket in light green paper: the front flap features a black woodcut of a forest with a group of insurgents, with the author’s surname and the title in rectangular panels; the back flap bears the Ukrainian Publishers Ltd. publisher’s mark. Creases in the upper corner of the front cover, with rubbing and soiling along the edges and folds. The paper shows even natural yellowing; the sheets are not trimmed evenly at the front edge; the text block is firm, with no missing parts. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished during the author’s lifetime. The book is of historical and cultural value and is of collector’s interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book takes the reader from the collapse of Poland in September 1939, through two years of Soviet occupation, underground activity, and crossing the border, to the proclamation of the restoration of the Ukrainian State, experienced by the hero in Lutsk, and on to the years of German occupation, battles with the Gestapo and NKVD, and finally to deportation eastward, all the way to Moscow. The material is divided into over forty short chapters: “The Arrival of the New ‘Liberators’,” “Battle with the NKVD,” “The Gestapo’s Punishment Detachment,” “The Red Hordes,” “The Train Departs Eastward.” In a separate statement before the text, the author warns that the facts are true, that some names and pseudonyms are given authentically, and that some episodes have been recounted in altered form.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStepan Mudryk-Mechnik (1919–2004) — born in the village of Kryve in the Radkivshchyna region, he served as a courier between the regional OUN leader Ivan Klymyvyi “Legenda” and Stepan Bandera on the eve of the German-Soviet war, was a prisoner in German concentration camps, deputy commander of the UPA “Buh” military district, and from 1951, head of intelligence for the OUN’s Overseas Units, later head of the OUN’s Main Council. “Unconquered” is his second book after “Under Three Occupiers” (London, 1958); the Volyn and Galicia episodes are based on his own experience, and “Legenda” appears in the text under his own pseudonym.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUkrainian Publishers Ltd. in London — publisher of the monthly “Vyzvolnyi Shliakh” (1948–2004), which also occasionally published books; this volume was printed in its own press. Below the publisher’s mark on the back cover is an explanation: the vignette is a woodcut by Nil Khashevych (1905–1952), “We Are the Free Men on Guard,” from the 1948 series “Volyn in the Struggle.” Khashevych — a graphic artist and UPA soldier who carved his woodblocks in the underground and died in battle against the forces of the MDB — had his works preserved almost exclusively in emigré publications.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62051622027635,"sku":"SKU-00017","price":9000.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15162311737715.jpg?v=1793985491"},{"product_id":"levchenko-semen-za-voliu-i-derzhavu-london-1966","title":"Levchenko Semen. For Liberty and the State. London, 1966","description":"\u003cp\u003eLevchenko Semen. For Freedom and Sovereignty: A Novel of the Liberation Struggles \/ Introductory Essay by Mykola Veres; Illustrations by Robert Lisovsky.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLondon: Ukrainian Publishers Ltd., 1966. — 494 pp.: ill. — 22 × 15 cm. — Published by the author and his wife. Print run not stated.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the original green publisher's dust jacket with graphic illustration. Foxing on individual sheets, natural yellowing of the paper; the binding is firm, the text is complete. Library stamps on the title page. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book has historical and cultural value and is of collector's interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA four-part novel about the years 1918–1920: the march on Moscow, battles with Bolshevik troops, losses, and feats of the Ukrainian army. Each part opens with an epigraph from a Ukrainian song. Parallel English title — \"For Freedom and Sovereignty\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSemen Levchenko was a major in the Ukrainian army and a direct participant in the events described, so the novel is based on his own memory rather than archives. The introductory essay was written by Mykola Veres. The illustrations were done by Robert Lisovsky (1893–1982) — a graphic artist, student of Heorhii Narbut, and designer of dozens of diaspora publications and the \"Tryzub\" emblem.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book was published in London before the 50th anniversary of the liberation struggles of 1917–1921, at the expense of the author and his wife. Such editions by the author rarely entered the bookstore network and circulated among veteran communities, so they are infrequently found in circulation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62109476323699,"sku":"SKU-00037","price":2500.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15178048340339.jpg?v=1793986924"},{"product_id":"babii-oleksa-povstantsi-chykaho-1956","title":"Babi Olha. The Insurgents: a poem. Chicago, 1956","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“I taught them to love their enemy, but I see that he who strives to live must kill his enemies.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOleksa Babii. Insurgents: A Poem.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChicago: Literary Publishing House, 1956.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublisher’s softcover in yellow paper: on the front cover, a line drawing of the profile of an insurgent in a cap, with a rifle slung over his shoulder; on the back, the publisher’s mark (a goose feather above a stylized emblem), signed with the initials “A. K.” The cover has darkened evenly, with stains and reddish spots, most notably on the back cover and in the lower left corner of the front; the edges and corners are worn. The glue in the fold near the front cover has cracked, exposing the stitching and remnants of paper. The top edge is dusty, and the paper is evenly yellowed. On several pages (notably pp. 60, 125, and the last), the stanzas are marked with vertical lines in blue ballpoint pen; on p. 125, the word “Beginning” and stanza numbers 1 to 5 are written beside them—likely markings for recitation. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLifetime edition. The book has historical and cultural value and is of collector’s interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA rhymed chronicle of a Galician village during World War II. The action takes place in the ancient village of Luk nad Dnistrom, near old Galicia, where the Dniester meets the Limnytsia; at its center is the family of the priest Ivan Horodnyk and his daughter Olha. The sections “Young Days, Days of Spring,” “The Enemy Approaches,” and “The Army in the Forests” trace the course from spring plowing through the defeat of Poland and the arrival of foreign armies to the peasant uprising: the young men go into the forests, the detachment is led by Otaman Zhuk, and the old priest, who for half a century taught them to love their enemy, must decide whether he can take up arms for his native land. The poem ends with the insurgent army’s march to the Black Sea. Written in six-line stanzas with an aabccb rhyme scheme.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOleks (Oleksandr) Babii (1897–1975), listed as Oleksa on the title page, was a poet, prose writer, and literary scholar from Kalushchyna. He fought in the Ukrainian Galician Army; in 1922, he became one of the organizers of the Symbolist group “Mytus” in Lviv, and earned a doctorate in literary studies from the Ukrainian Higher Pedagogical Institute in Prague; for participating in the founding meetings of the OUN, the Polish authorities sentenced him to four years’ imprisonment. After the war, he lived in DP camps in Munich, and from 1949 onward in Chicago, where he died. “Insurgents” is his latest poem, following “Hutsul Kurin” (1927) and “Harvest” (1946).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book was published by the Chicago-based Literary Publishing House, with the publisher’s mark “A. K.” on the back cover. The Encyclopedia of Contemporary Ukraine rates Babii’s post-war poems lower than his interwar work, but as an emigrant poet’s attempt to recount the insurgent struggle in the grand epic form of “Insurgents,” it remains a notable document of the era.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62316604260723,"sku":"SKU-00072","price":2500.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15232791019891.jpg?v=1793986923"},{"product_id":"khrin-stepan-zymoiu-v-bunkri-1950","title":"Khryn Stepan. Winter in the Bunker: Memoirs-Chronicle 1947\/48. [Augsburg], 1950","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Written in the winter of 1947–48—transcribed on a typewriter in an underground winter bunker.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eStepan Khryn [Stepan Stembelsky], commander of a UPA tactical detachment. Winter in the bunker: a chronicle of memories from 1947\/48.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e[Augsburg]: Do Zbroi Publishing House, 1950. — 142, [2] pp. — 20 × 14 cm. — The place of publication on the title page is given as “In Exile.” B. Krynitski Printing House, Augsburg, Brandirstrasse 3. On the verso of the title page: “All rights reserved. Copyright, 1950 by Do Zbroi.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCream-colored paper publisher’s cover: the front cover is covered with blue print, a yellow handwritten title, and a dark blue illustration of an insurgent in a helmet with binoculars; the artist’s monogram is at the bottom of the illustration; on the back cover is the Do Zbroi publisher’s mark—a figure with a flag on a rock. The cover is worn and soiled, with creases, tears, and small losses of paper along the edges and corners; the spine is torn at the top. The paper is yellowed, the edges of the leaves are frayed, the text block is tight, and there are no losses. The owner’s signature “M. Kotliarchuk” is written in ink on the half-title page. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFirst edition. The book has historical and cultural value and is of collecting interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe chronicle was written in an underground bunker in the winter of 1947\/48 and transcribed on a typewriter the following winter in the same bunker by a UPA courier, Tetiana—the copy reached the Do Zbroi editorial office from the Foreign Representation of the UGVN. This is not fiction, but a diary: the sections “Spring and Summer 1947,” “Daily Activities,” “First Alarm,” and “The Roar of Machine Guns in the Forests” trace the daily routine in the hideout—guard duty, cooking, lectures for the fighters—to sudden alarms when the enemy was pounding the ground just fifteen meters above the bunker. The author separately transcribed the insurgents’ notes into his memoirs, knowing that none of their authors would survive until the next day. A large part of the text is devoted to the formation of a Lemko hundred from recruits, seventy percent of whom were illiterate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eStepan Stembelsky (1914–1949), known underground as Khryn—a UPA major, commander of a hundred and a tactical detachment in Zakrzon, and leader of the operation in which Poland’s Deputy Minister of Defense, General Karol Świerczewski, was killed on March 28, 1947. He died in 1949 in Czechoslovakia while escorting UGVN couriers to the American zone. The book was published after his death.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDo Zbroi Publishing House—the center of the UPA Mission at the Foreign Representation of the UGVN, which published a same-named journal of military-political thought. Printed in Augsburg; orders were taken at Volodymyr Sorochak’s Munich address. Further books are announced on the last page—Khryn’s own “Through the Laughter of Iron” (published in 1952) and “Memoirs of the Ostroverkh Detachment.” The cheap paper D-P edition sold among wanderers and did not reach libraries in Ukraine; in the Ukrainian SSR, the text was banned, first republished only in volume 30 of the “Chronicle of the UPA” (2000).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62515874857331,"sku":"SKU-00084","price":6800.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15288102060403.jpg?v=1793985497"},{"product_id":"50-richchia-oun-1929-1979-toronto-1979","title":"50th Anniversary of the OUN, 1929–1979: Appeal. Toronto, 1979","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"xdj266r x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs x126k92a\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e\n\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"xdj266r x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs x126k92a\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE OUN. 1929–1979. [ADDRESS ON THE OCCASION OF THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUNDING OF THE OUN: CONCLUSIONS AND PERSPECTIVES]. 1979\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003eToronto: Ukrainian Publishers Ltd. (Library of the Ukrainian Publishing Union). — 64 pp. (approx.) — 21 × 14 cm.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003eIn the original light blue softcover. The front cover features the OUN emblem (a trident with a sword inside a triangle) and the slogans: “For an independent, united Ukrainian state,” “Freedom for the nations! Freedom for humanity!”. Good condition, with minor signs of wear. The cover and some pages bear the stamp “Library of Ukrainian Publishers Ltd. London”. The book contains numerous historical photographs of the leaders and figures of the Ukrainian nationalist movement.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003eThe book is of historical and cultural value, an important document of Ukrainian émigré journalism, and is of interest to collectors and researchers of the history of the struggle for liberation.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003eA jubilee publication dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (1929–1979). The collection contains programmatic texts, an analysis of the OUN’s historical path, and memoirs by underground fighters. In particular, the book publishes B. Podolyanka’s essay “The OUN Underground Press,” which describes the work of the organization’s technical units under occupation. The publication is illustrated with portraits of prominent figures: Yevhen Konovalets, Stepan Bandera, Stepan Lenckavskyi, Ivan Klymyv-Lehenda, Myroslav Turash, and others. It also features a group photograph of the participants of the First Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists in 1929.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003eOrganization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003eA Ukrainian political movement that aimed to establish an independent Ukrainian state. Founded in Vienna in 1929 through the merger of the Ukrainian Military Organization (UVO) and nationalist student groups. The ideological foundation of the movement was formed by the works of Dmytro Dontsov and the resolutions of the founding congresses led by Yevhen Konovalets. For decades, the OUN was the main driving force of the armed and political struggle for Ukraine’s sovereignty, both on its own soil and in exile.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62593847460211,"sku":"SKU-00115","price":1500.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15305761718643.jpg?v=1793988343"},{"product_id":"poltava-p-chomu-povstannia-1648-r-bulo-peremozhne-1948","title":"Poltava Petro. Why the Uprising of 1648 Was Victorious. [Unpublished], 1948","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Our revolutionary underground today is the latest form of the Cossack tradition, adapted to today’s conditions.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eP. Poltava. Why the 1648 Uprising Was Successful.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[Place of publication unknown]: [publisher unknown], 1948. — 48 pp. — (Reprint of Underground Materials; print run: 48; 03\/48). — 15 × 10.5 cm. The place of publication on the cover is listed as “Abroad.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSoftcover with light cardboard: black geometric ornament in the style of embroidery; the slogans “For a Free, Independent, United Ukraine! Freedom for the Peoples! Freedom for Humanity!”, the author’s name, and the title in red; OUN emblem on the back cover. The cover is worn and soiled, the edges darkened, with stains on both sides, a small loss of paper in the lower left corner of the front cover, and tears near the bottom of the spine. The paper shows natural yellowing and occasional stains; the text block is firm. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished during the author’s lifetime. The brochure has historical and cultural value and is of collector’s interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe back cover explains in small print that the cover was copied from underground mimeographed brochures at a 1:2 reduction. That is, this is a printed duplicate of what was reproduced on mimeograph machines in Ukrainian hideouts. Inside is an article by Petro Poltava, dated April 1948 and intended for an underground journal; according to the publishers, it served as material for political educators. The author attributes the success of 1648 to the fact that the uprising was the work of the insurgent masses themselves, and draws a direct line from the Cossack tradition to his own underground movement, which he calls the modern Sich. A postcard from the OUN Leadership commemorating the 300th anniversary of the Khmelnytsky Uprising, widely distributed in Ukraine that summer, is included.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePetro Poltava (born Petro Fedun, 1919–1951) was a leading ideologue of the OUN and UPA in the post-war years. He was born in Shnyriv near Brody; from 1946, he headed the Information Bureau of the UGV, and in 1950–1951, he served as deputy chairman of the General Secretariat of the UGV. Couriers smuggled his works to emigré centers abroad. He died in December 1951 when the MGB surrounded his hideout in a forest near Novoshyn in the Lviv region.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe brochure opens the series “Reprint of Underground Materials”: in the “Publisher’s Note,” it is stated that the reprints give Ukrainians abroad the opportunity to directly familiarize themselves with the struggle of wartime Ukraine without any editorial changes, and the next issue, “Soviet Patriotism,” is promised. The last page lists the author’s other works known outside the underground and announces “Chronicle of the Wolves,” the diary of the UPA “Wolves” unit. The publication appeared when the author was still active in the underground for another three years.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62594213609843,"sku":"SKU-00118","price":2800.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15305825780083.jpg?v=1793986918"},{"product_id":"do-zbroi-konvoliut-1953-1955","title":"To Arms: A Journal of Military and Political Thought. Pamphlet. Munich, 1953–1955","description":"\u003cp\u003eDo Zbroi: a journal of Ukrainian military-political thought. A volume of issues 21(34)–26(39).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMunich; Augsburg: published by the “Do Zbroi” publishing house of the UPA Mission under the Foreign Representation of the UVLN, 1953–1955. — Six issues in one volume: issue 21(34), December 1953; issue 22(35), March 1954; issue 23(36), June 1954; issue 24(37), September 1954; issue 25(38), December 1954; issue 26(39), May 1955 (this issue was published in Augsburg). Each issue contains 40–44 pages. The print run is not stated.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGift-edition half-leather binding: dark blue leather spine with silver and gold stamping and geometric-floral ornaments; marbled “ebru” paper endpapers in blue, light blue, white, and black tones; leather corners with gold trim; light blue marbled paper endpapers. The binding shows no signs of wear, and the corners are undamaged. The paper edges of individual sheets show natural yellowing. The title page of issue 22 bears a purple stamp “Universitas Libera Ucrainensis. Bibliotheca. Monachii”. Condition: very good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe volume has historical and cultural value and is of collector’s interest; the publisher’s binding is of independent artistic interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe stamp on issue 22 is the library stamp of the Ukrainian Free University, founded in Vienna in 1921, moved to Prague that same year, and evacuated to Munich in May 1945 before the arrival of Soviet troops (those who remained in Prague were arrested and deported). Thus, the volume comes from the scientific library of the oldest Ukrainian émigré institution of higher education.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe journal itself was published from 1946 as the organ of the UPA Mission under the Foreign Representation of the UVLN—an organization that represented the UVLN and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army in the West. The numbering is dual: the number in parentheses is the continuous number since 1946, while the number without parentheses is the number in the current series. The editorial staff traveled with the émigré community: Munich, Augsburg, Munich again, and Augsburg again. The pages contain analyses of the UPA and UVLN tactics, the geopolitical confrontation between the USSR and the USA, the nuclear threat, reviews, and memoirs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese six issues cover December 1953–May 1955; no later issues are recorded in the bibliography, so issue 26(39) was probably the last. 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New York, 1954","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Ukrainian Insurgent Army in Fight for Freedom \/ [published by the United Committee of Ukrainian-American Organizations of New York]; dust jacket by Yakiv Hnyzdovsky.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNew York: United Committee of the Ukrainian-American Organizations of New York, 1954. — 223 pp., 12 plates: illustrations, portrait. — 23 cm. — Printed by “Dnipro” Publishing Co., New York. — Text in English.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBound in dark cloth; in the preserved original illustrated dust jacket: the top half is cream-colored, with the title set in large sans-serif type; the bottom half features a documentary photograph of a line of UPA soldiers armed with weapons; the spine of the dust jacket repeats the same design. The dust jacket is worn at the edges and folds, with tears and small losses of paper at the top and bottom of the spine and at the corners, and with soiling and stains on the back. The paper has an even natural yellowing, and the edges are slightly soiled. The block is firm, the sheets are not loose, and there are no losses. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCopy 1 — without inscriptions, stamps, or ex libris. Copy 2 has a handwritten inscription in ink on the flyleaf and signature: “In memory of participation in the Art Exhibition of the League of Ukrainian Artists, organized by the Ukrainian-American Department of the UAA in New York, on October 13–20, 1957,” under the stamp of the United Committee of American-Ukrainian Organizations of New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book has historical and cultural value and is of collecting interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe occasion for the publication was an anti-communist rally at the Manhattan Center in New York in October 1952, convened to commemorate a decade of the UPA struggle; the preface states that the organizing committee brought together 69 organizations and about ten thousand members. The book consists of two distinct parts. The first — the American tribune: speeches by Senators Theodore Green and Irving Ives, an introduction by Congressman Michael Feagan, a preface by the head of the UAA, Lev Dobriansky, and a review of “Ten Years of the UPA Struggle (1942–1952)” by Lev Shankovsky. The second, larger part — English translations of texts by the underground itself: stories, underground satire, an excerpt from a play, combat memoirs, orders, and the programmatic work of UPA Major Petro Poltava (Petro Fedun, 1919–1951), “The Conception of Independent Ukraine,” written in 1946 and first published in Ukraine in 1947; translated from a reprint smuggled west by insurgents in 1948.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe illustrations are a particular value of the volume. In addition to documentary photographs of the UPA (notably a portrait of General-Khorunzhii Roman Shukhevych — Taras Chyvrynka — and a photograph of Colonel “Aeneas,” commander of a UPA group in Volhynia, 1945), woodcuts by Nil Khashevych (1905–1952) are reproduced here — a graphic artist, member of the OUN and UGV, who worked underground and died surrounded by enemy forces in the Rivne region. His woodcut “If Tomorrow There Is War” is presented with a reference to an underground leaflet printed in Ukraine in 1949. The volume also includes the sculpture “Head of a Girl” by Mykhailo Chereshnyovsky, a former UPA soldier. This is one of the few channels through which the art of the Ukrainian underground reached Western readers during the movement’s lifetime.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe dust jacket was designed by Yakiv Hnyzdovsky (1915–1985) — a graphic artist whose woodcuts were included in collections at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Library of Congress; his authorship is noted on the verso of the title page. The publication belongs to the English-language series of publications by the Ukrainian emigration during the Cold War, intended for American politicians and journalists rather than their own. The bibliography at the end of the volume documents this milieu: the Munich quarterly “Do Zbroi,” works by Mykola Lebed, Oleh Martovych, Petro Mirchuk, and Clarence Manning, and Khashevych’s woodcut album published by “Prologue” in Philadelphia in 1952. A review of the book appeared in the American “Foreign Affairs” in 1955. 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The German occupation of Ukraine \/ introductory remarks by Prof. Ivan Hrynko.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e[Munich]: Suvachynost, 1987. — Second edition. — 206, [1] pp.: illustrations, facsimiles of documents. — (Prologue and Suvachynost Library; No. 172). — ISBN 3-89278-003-X. Printed on acid-free paper. Place of publication not stated on the title page: library catalogs indicate [New York], and the ISBN prefix is German. The page count varies in sources: 206, [1] pp. in catalog descriptions and 207 pp. in the Suvachynost publisher’s announcement. Print run not stated.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher’s dust jacket in light blue lacquered cardboard: the title “UPA” and publisher’s emblem—an oval with a banner—are embossed in yellow; the author’s surname and title are also in yellow on the spine. Fine scratches and scuffs in the lacquering, bumped corners on the right side of the front cover, a round light stain about 10 cm in diameter and occasional scuffs on the back cover. The text block is firm, the pages are clean, and the paper shows no yellowing. The author’s signature in ink appears on the title page, with no date or inscription. Condition: very good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLifetime edition signed by the author. The book has historical and cultural value and is of collector’s interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe work was written in 1945, during the fighting, and published in 1946 by the Press Bureau of the OUN-ZPU—it is the first documentary account of the history of the UPA, written from within the movement. Eleven chapters trace the independence movement’s ideas on the eve of the German-Bolshevik war through the Act of June 30, 1941, the formation and growth of the UPA, raids in Ukrainian territories, and the winter operations of 1943–1944. The second half of the book consists of documentary material: facsimiles of appeals, underground leaflets and German propaganda leaflets against the OUN, and photographs—including images of the public execution of ten Ukrainians in the Market Square in Drohobych on December 2, 1943. The volume concludes with a list of documents and an index of proper names. In the 1946 preface, the Press Bureau stated that it was publishing the work in its first edition because access to archival materials was impossible at the time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMykola Lebed (1909–1998) was one of the leading figures of the OUN, convicted at the 1936 Warsaw trial for the murder of Minister Bronisław Pieracki, and served as the OUN Security Service’s liaison officer; after the arrest of Stepan Bandera in 1941, he headed the OUN Leadership in Ukrainian territories. In 1944, he became a co-founder of the OUN-ZPU and its General Secretary for Foreign Affairs; from 1949, he lived in the United States, where he directed the Prologue Research and Publishing Association. 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The Ukrainian Army in the Struggle for Statehood. Munich, 1958","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“...our outline is a set of lecture notes... for the students of the 1st Starshynska School of the UPA.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLev Shankovskyi. The Ukrainian Army in the Struggle for Statehood \/ cover by Myron Levytskyi.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMunich: Dniprovska Khvylia Publishing House, 1958. — 317, [3] pp.: portrait, photo illustrations, maps, tables — approx. 21 × 15 cm. — Printed by Buchdruckerei und Verlag “BIBLOS” G.m.b.H., Munich, Heß-Str. 50–52. Additional title pages in English (“Ukrainian Army in Fight for National Sovereignty”) and German. Print run not stated.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginal publisher’s cover of light green marbled paper: author’s surname in black, title in brick red, round emblem at the bottom with an artillery crew and the artist’s monogram. Cover has scattered brown spots and stains, rubbing, and minor creases along the edges and corners; crease in the lower corner of the front cover; scattered ochre spots on the back cover. Text block paper is evenly yellowed, with darkening along the edges. Text block is tight, with no losses. Owner’s inscription in blue ink on the title page. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLifetime edition. The book has historical and cultural value and is of collector’s interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe author directly refers to the book’s main outline in the introduction as a set of lecture notes prepared for the students of the 1st Starshynska School of the UPA, meaning this overview of the organization of armies in 1917–1921 was written as educational material for an underground Starshynska school and only later became a book. The volume combines eleven works: “The Ukrainian Army during the First Liberation Struggle of 1917–1921,” with sections on the army’s leadership, higher formations, the Ukrainian People’s Republic Army of 1920, the Ukrainian Galician Army, paramilitary units and rear services; followed by the Russian army’s deployment in 1917, Ukrainian regiments of the Austrian army, the Stryi Plastsuns, the Chortkiv Offensive, the 1919 offensive on Kyiv, the Winter Campaign of the UPR Army, the insurgent raid of the cavalry brigade led by Ot. Sheparovych in 1920 in the Kherson region, “Lost Opportunities in the Liberation Struggle,” and an overview of military history sources with a bibliography and index. Illustrations include portraits of Symon Petliura (frontispiece), Yevhen Konovalets, Andrii Melnyk, Mykola Kapustianskyi, and Myron Tarnavskyi, along with photographs of officers and armored trains.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLev Shankovskyi (1903–1995; pseudonyms “Dzvin,” “Oleh Martovych”) was a military historian, economist, and publicist, a full member of the NTSh, and one of the founders of the UGV. He served in the UGA and the UPR Army and participated in the First Winter Campaign; during World War II, he was a member of the underground resistance. This work remains one of the most comprehensive overviews of the organization of Ukrainian armies during the Liberation Struggle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe cover was designed by Myron Levytskyi (1913–1993), a graphic artist, painter, and illustrator of the Lviv school who later became one of the most prominent designers of Ukrainian émigré books. Dniprovska Khvylia Publishing House was founded in Munich in 1953 by Oleksa Vintonyak; by 1975, it had published sixty-five titles, mostly works by Ukrainian historians. Printed by the Munich-based BIBLOS printing house. The work was not republished in Ukraine.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64285932716403,"sku":"SKU-00157","price":13500.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15523247292787.jpg?v=1793985206"},{"product_id":"povstenko-oleksa-kyiv-albom-arkhitekturnykh-pamiatok-avgsburg-1946","title":"Povstenko Oleksa. Kyiv: Album of Architectural Monuments of Our Capital. Augsburg, 1946","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“...Upon these hills the grace of God shall shine, and a great city shall arise...”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOleksa Povstenko. Kyiv: album of architectural monuments of our capital = The Album of the Architectural Monuments of the Ukrainian Capital Kiev \/ cover by Petro Andrusiv.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAugsburg: published by the “Samopomich” cooperative in Augsburg, 1946. — 32 p.: illus. — 21.5 × 15.5 cm. — Bilingual Ukrainian and English text. On the verso of the title page: “Printed with the permission of UNRRA Team 114.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOriginal publisher’s cover of brick-red paper: on the front cover, a drawing by Petro Andrusiv shows the Apostle Andrew placing a cross on the hills of Kyiv, printed in black and red, with the title at the bottom in stylized uncial script; the back cover is plain. The text block is fastened with two metal staples. Loss of paper in the upper right corner of both sides of the cover, rubbing and soiling along the edges, minor tears. Rust stains on the title page from contact with the cover, natural yellowing of the paper. Pencil marks on the back cover. The text block is firm, the pages are clean, and there is no loss of text. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLifetime edition. The book has historical and cultural value as an example of Ukrainian camp literature published during the DP era and is of collector’s interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe album consists of a preface and an illustrated section with bilingual captions. The preface begins with the legend of the Apostle Andrew, who placed a cross on the hills of Kyiv, and continues through the era of the princes to the destruction of the city listed below. The illustrations show the monument to Prince Volodymyr the Great by Kłodt von Jungensburg (1853), the Vsesvyatska Church above the Economic Gate of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, built by Hetman Ivan Mazepa in the 1690s, the bell tower of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra’s Church of the Resurrection by Ivan Hryhorovych-Barsky, the opera house designed by Schretter, Velyka-Volodmyrska Street, and a panorama of Podil with the funicular from Volodymyr Hill. The captions also record losses: beneath the bell tower of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra’s Church of the Resurrection, it reads “built in 1760, destroyed in 1937.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOleksa Povstenko (1902–1973) was an architect, art historian, and museum figure. In 1941–1943, he headed the architectural-historical reserve “Saint Sophia Cathedral” in Kyiv. In exile in Germany, he studied the monuments of Kyiv; following this album, he published “Frescoes and Mosaics of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra” (Munich, 1947), “Historical Plans of Kyiv,” co-authored with Petro Kurennyi (Augsburg, UVAN, 1947), and “History of Ukrainian Art” (Nuremberg, 1948). From 1949, in the United States, he worked for many years as an architect of the Capitol in Washington; his final work was “Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv” (New York, 1954).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book was published in Augsburg by the Ukrainian “Samopomich” cooperative with the permission of UNRRA Team 114—that is, within the system of camps for displaced persons, where print runs were small, paper was cheap, and distribution was among their own. The cover was designed by the painter and graphic artist Petro Andrusiv (1906–1981). The album was printed for readers cut off from Kyiv and was also a way to document before a foreign-language audience what the Soviet authorities had destroyed in the 1930s.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64589810139507,"sku":"SKU-00185","price":5000.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15528936604019.jpg?v=1793985766"},{"product_id":"horlis-horskyi-yurii-kholodnyi-yar-london-1967","title":"Horlis-Horskyi Yurii. Kholodnyi Yar: in Two Parts. London, 1967","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Kholodnyi Yar is one of the most vivid pages of the liberation struggle in Ukraine.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYurii Horlis-Horskyi. Kholodnyi Yar (in two parts, with a map). Fourth edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLondon: published by M. 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The narrative is told from within the events: a stay at the Motronyn Monastery, where Ataman Chornota reads “Critique of Pure Reason” in a cell, with nearby volumes exchanged for Bolshevik propaganda trains in the villages; riding in threes to the Kreseltsi forest with the Chuchupak brothers; the reorganization of the Kholodnyi Yar Regiment into a brigade of three regiments in the summer of 1920; the destruction of a Chekist “shock group” that had camped in a dugout in the Kholodnyi Yar forest. It was from this book that the image of the Kholodnyi Yar Republic, which fought under the national flag until 1922, entered the Ukrainian memory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYurii Horlis-Horskyi (1898–1946), born Yurii Horodianyn-Lisovskyi, was a senior officer in the Army of the Ukrainian People’s Republic, a scout, and a writer. A participant in the Kholodnyi Yar insurgent movement, he later became a prisoner in Bolshevik jails, escaped from a psychiatric hospital, and reached Poland. In the 1930s, he lived in Galicia, where the first editions of “Kholodnyi Yar” were published (Lviv, 1934–1935). During World War II, he ended up in the West; he died in Germany in 1946.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe title page of this edition marks it as the fourth. It was published in London by M. Myronenko, who added his own historical and political essay-afterword (pp. 419–434), signed in January 1967, — a polemical review of events from the Central Rada and the Hetmanate to the Directorate. Ukrainian London editions of the 1960s were published in small print runs and circulated within the diaspora community, so copies are rare.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64589810663795,"sku":"SKU-00194","price":4500.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15528937128307.jpg?v=1793986026"},{"product_id":"knysh-zynovii-zunro-toronto-1974","title":"Zinovyi Knysh. ZUNRO: West Ukrainian National Revolutionary Organization. Toronto, 1974","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“She was born in the twilight of emigrant intrigues and speculations, whispered by the red devil…”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eZinoviy Knysh. ZUNRO: The West Ukrainian National Revolutionary Organization: A Historical and Political Study.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eToronto: Sribna Surma, 1974. — Printed by Kiev Printers Ltd., 860 Richmond Street West, Toronto, Ontario.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCloth-bound in orange-tan cloth with dark red lettering: the author’s name and title on the top cover, title along the spine; back cover plain. The cloth of the top cover has dark stains and uneven toning, dark spots along the edge of the spine and on the top corner; the back cover has light marks at the top left. The text block is tight, the paper is white and clean. The title page bears two stamps: a round one with a portrait of the poet — “Taras Shevchenko Ukrainian Language Society, Chicago, Illinois — USA” and a rectangular one — “J. T. Iwanetz M.D.S.C., 713 East 142nd Street, Dolton, Illinois 60419”; the impressions show through on the reverse. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLifetime edition. The book has historical and cultural value and is of collector’s interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe study of ZUNRO — the West Ukrainian National Revolutionary Organization of the second half of the 1920s, which the author presents as a reaction to “Zmianyvykivstvo” and pro-Soviet sentiment in Western Ukraine and among the military emigration. In the preface, he admits that a complete history of ZUNRO is unlikely to be written: almost all its members have died, leaving nothing behind, and the living remain silent. The book’s sections: Ukraine ten years after the Great War and the UVO’s fight on two fronts; ZUNRO’s criticism of West Ukrainian citizenship, particularly UNDO; the 1928 trial of the Lviv gymnasium students — fifteen defendants from Sniatyn and Kolomyia; press reviews after the trial. On p. 286 is included a separate speech by the former secretary of the UPRP Secretariat in Lviv and editor of “Hromads’kyi Holos” about the 1927 elections.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eZinoviy Knysh (1906–1999) — a lawyer and activist of the UVO and OUN, one of the leading chroniclers of their history. Born in Kolomyia, he earned a doctorate in law from Lviv University in 1930; from 1924 — in the UVO, arrested three times by Polish authorities; from 1949, he lived in Canada, where he organized and funded the Sribna Surma publishing house. ZUNRO stands alongside his other Toronto works on the UVO and OUN, such as “At the Origins of Ukrainian Organized Nationalism” (1970).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAn edition by the author’s own publishing house, printed at the Kiev Printers in Toronto. The copy has Chicago origins: the title page bears a stamp of the Chicago Taras Shevchenko Ukrainian Language Society and a stamp with an address in Dolton, a suburb of Chicago.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67289897795955,"sku":"SKU-00214","price":3500.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15528939159923.jpg?v=1793986578"},{"product_id":"knysh-zynovii-v-iaskyni-leva-toronto-1958","title":"Zinoviy Knysh. In the Lion's Den: A Ukrainian in the Polish Underground. Toronto, 1958","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“How much stronger both our nations would be if they could live in sensible friendship and harmony, lean shoulder to shoulder, and stand man to man against their relentless enemies.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the Lion’s Den (a Ukrainian in the Polish underground) \/ based on the notes and materials of Tadeusz Gordon, transcribed by Zinoviy Knysh. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eToronto: [Sribna Surma], 1958. — 123 pp. — Printed by The New Pathway, Winnipeg.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished in a softcover of grey-cream cardboard: the front cover bears the title and publication details in black print; the back cover is plain. The cover is darkened and soiled, with stains and foxing on the front, and moisture marks along the top edge and a dark stain in the center of the back. The edges and spine are rubbed, with small tears along the binding. The text block shows natural yellowing, with occasional foxing on the title page, its verso, and p. 3; the block is firm, and the text is complete. The verso of the title page bears the stamp “Prof. Dr. Petro i Lesia Goy, 430 East 6th St., # 9J, New York, N.Y. 10009 USA”. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLifetime edition. The book has historical and cultural value and is of collector’s interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn January 13, 1940, a young Ukrainian nationalist crossed the German-Soviet border between the villages of Dakhniv near Lyubachev and Chesanov, obtained documents in the name of Volodymyr Rohoivsky, reached Krakow, and from there Warsaw, where, on behalf of his organization, he joined the Polish underground. The book is his first-person account: a group of twenty men and one woman, service as a courier in the Polish Żydzi organization, illegal printing presses, arrests, Gestapo informants, and underground courts, a Polish order for a Ukrainian, and even a trip to Paris as a Polish courier. The preface explains the background: after the destruction of Poland, the OUN was preparing to fight Bolshevism, while hostility toward Ukrainians was growing in the Polish resistance. The book concludes with a reflection on whether the “curse of destiny” will forever hang over both nations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eZinoviy Knysh (1906–1999) was a historian and activist of the UVO and OUN, a doctor of law at Lviv University, and was arrested three times by Polish authorities. In 1940, he joined the OUN leadership and the Secretariat of the Ukrainian Nationalist Leadership in Krakow—the very place and time where this story begins. After the war, he was a leader of the OUN(M) in Western Europe and lived in Canada from 1949, where he founded and funded the Sribna Surma publishing house and published a series of memoirs and documents on the history of the UVO and OUN.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHere Knysh acts not as the author, but as a transcriber: the title page explicitly states that he “transcribed” the book based on Tadeusz Gordon’s notes and materials. The edition was printed by the New Pathway press in Winnipeg. 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The narrative begins in June 1944, as the German front retreats westward—going underground under a pseudonym, hiding places, working with peasants, first encounters with Bolshevik units—and continues until the spring of 1945, with fighting against fortified Polish villages between Birch, Dubets, and Sianok. The book ends on the threshold of Lemkivshchyna, where the author had already joined the ranks of the UPA.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eStepan Stabel’ska (1914–1949), known underground as Khryn, was a major in the UPA, commander of a company and a tactical detachment in the Zakrzon region, and leader of the operation in which Poland’s Deputy Minister of Defense, General Karol Świerczewski, was killed in 1947. He died in 1949 in Czechoslovakia while escorting UGVK couriers westward and never saw his book published.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Do Zbroji Publishing House operated through the UPA Mission at the UGVK’s Foreign Representative Office. Its chronological sequel, In the Bunker in Winter, was published in 1950, while this first part was not published until 1952. The cheap paper edition sold out quickly among the émigré community; in Ukraine, the text was first reprinted in volume 30 of the Chronicle of the UPA (2000). This copy comes from the Ukrainian Museum and Library collection in Stamford, Connecticut.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"1","offer_id":64589822132595,"sku":"SKU-00259","price":4500.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15528942338419.jpg?v=1793986021"},{"product_id":"knysh-zynovii-rozbrat-toronto","title":"Zinoviy Knysh. Rozbrat: Memories and Materials on the Split of the OUN in 1940–1941. 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The twenty-four illustrations include portraits, photographs, and a plan of the Vronky prison; among them are Roman Shukhevych as a gymnasium student and in the uniform of the UPA, Yevhen Onatskyi, Yulian Vasyian, and Yaroslav Baranovskyi.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eZinoviy Knysh (1906–1999) was a lawyer and historian born in Kolomyia. From 1924, he was a member of the Ukrainian Military Organization, arrested three times by Polish authorities, and sentenced in 1931 to eight years in prison. From 1940, he was a member of the leadership of the Melnyk faction of the OUN, and from 1949, he lived in Canada; he organized and funded the Sribna Surma publishing house, which published this book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe edition was printed by the Kyiv Printing House in Toronto. The cover was designed by Ivan Keivan (1907–1992), a painter, graphic artist, and art historian, and co-founder of the Ukrainian Association of Fine Artists in Canada. 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In the preface, the author lists the names of the agencies that the same apparatus successively changed: VChK, OGPU, NKVD-NKGB, MGB, KGB.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eStepan Mudryk (1919–2004), who signed his books with the pseudonym Mechnyk, was born in the village of Kryve in the Radkivshchyna region. A member of the OUN from 1937, he joined the Security Service of the OUN(b) in 1940 and served as a secret courier between Galicia and the Kraków center; in 1941, as part of mobile groups, he served in Zhytomyr and Kyiv, and in 1942 joined the Kyiv Regional Command, becoming deputy commander of the UPA “Buh-2” military district. In November 1943, he was arrested by the Nazis and imprisoned in a concentration camp. From 1945, he lived in West Germany, and from 1951, he served in the leadership of the Security Service of the OUN’s Foreign Parts; from 1965 to 1991, he headed the OUN(b) regional command in West Germany. 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The main part of the book is a chronicle of Bohdan Khmelnytsky’s uprising and the early years of the war with Poland; it is supplemented by an account of the lands, customs, government, origins, and religion of the Cossacks, and an account of the Zaporozhian Tatars.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePierre Chevalier (17th century) was a French officer who in 1646 commanded a detachment of Ukrainian Cossacks and later served as secretary of the French embassy in Poland; on the title page, he calls himself a royal councillor at the Mint. In early 1663, Melchisedek Tévéno included his “Account of the Cossacks” in the collection “Reports of Various Interesting Travels,” and that same year Chevalier published a separate book in Paris at his own expense, in the printing house of Claude Barbin, “Under the Sign of the Cross,” with a royal privilege. An English translation was published in 1672.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 1960 Kyiv edition is the first Ukrainian translation, made by Yu. I. 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Stain at the top of the back cover, scattered reddish spots along the spine edge and in the lower corner. Firm binding, cream paper, clean text with no underlining or inscriptions; no stamps or ex libris. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished during the author’s lifetime. The book is of historical and cultural value and is of collector’s interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book is a Banderite response to the dispute that split the OUN’s overseas units in the mid-1950s. 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Minor rubbing to the edges and corners, spine even, without tears; block firm, paper white, without stains, inscriptions or stamps. Condition: very good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book has historical and cultural value and is of collector's interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA collection of scientific articles and documents dedicated to Roman Shukhevych — Taras Chuprynka (1907–1950), commander-in-chief of the UPA and head of the General Secretariat of the UGV, who died in battle near Bilohorod near Lviv on March 5, 1950. 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The manual covers the operations of squads, platoons, companies, battalions, and insurgent regiments (regiments); the author developed it based on the 1948 “Infantry Combat Manual”. The third part develops special forms of partisan warfare, including march-raids. The instructions are illustrated with examples from insurgent life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStepan Frasuliak, pseudonym “Khmel”, was a teacher by profession and a Lieutenant Colonel of the UPA. From June 1944, he headed the staff of the “Hoverla” Military District, and in the spring of that same year, he founded the “Oleni” NCO school. Researchers call him the first historian of the UPA.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book was published in the “Library of the Ukrainian Underground” series, which the Foreign Branches of the OUN published for use by the Ukrainian revolutionary-liberation underground in Ukraine. 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Kosyk; foreword by Volodymyr Kosyk.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMunich: published by the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, 1987–1991. — Vol. 1: 528 pp., portrait; Vol. 2: no fewer than 467 pp. — Published at the expense of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and the Ukrainian Institute of Political Education in Munich. — © Ukrainischer Verlag München. — Printed by Druckgenossenschaft CICERO eG, München 80. — ISBN 3-926636-00-9 (Vol. 1).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBoth volumes are in publisher’s bindings of burgundy faux leather: on the front cover, the OUN emblem is stamped in gold—a trident in a cross against a triangle within a circle—along with the author’s name, the designations “Works, Part 1” \/ “Works, Part 2,” and the title within a frame of two gold plaques. The bindings are sturdy, with minor scuffing along the edges and occasional light spots on the surface; the text blocks are tight, and the pages are firmly attached. 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Between them are “Speech at the Trial in Lviv,” the memoirs “Behind Bars (From the Experiences of a Ukrainian Nationalist Revolutionary, Prisoner in a Polish Prison),” the programmatic articles “A New Social Order,” “Nationalism and Democracy,” “There Can Be No Social Revolution Without a National Revolution,” and a series of articles on the ABN—the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations. 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Osyp Navrotsky dates the beginning of the organization’s founding to the second half of August 1920 and describes its first steps in Lviv; separate sections are devoted to Colonel Yevhen Konovalets and Stepan Fedak’s shootings in Lviv in 1921—with recorded testimonies and reviews from the Polish press of the time. This is followed by a selection of newspaper reports on arson, explosions and sabotage in Eastern Galicia, an index of names, and lists of sources, illustrations and donors.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eZynoviy Knysh (1906–1999) was a lawyer, activist of the UVO and OUN, and a historian of their activities. He lived in Canada from 1949, where he organized and funded the Sribna Surma publishing house. 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The cloth of volume 2 is uneven in color, with several grayish spots and small specks on the back cover; volume 1 has a few dark specks on the back cover. The paper shows natural darkening. The lower corner of the title page in volume 1 is dog-eared. Condition: very good.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst edition. This two-volume set has historical and cultural value: it is cited by researchers of UPA history, including the publication “Chronicle of the UPA.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe two-volume set “UPA in the Light of Documents” is a collection of sources on the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, compiled by the Foreign Units of the OUN from regional reports, leaflets, and underground publications. 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No inscriptions, stamps, or bookplates. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst edition. The book has historical and cultural value and is of collector’s interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book was published two years after Stepan Bandera’s assassination in Munich and is structured as a chronological biography: gymnasium years, work in the OUN Regional Executive, leadership of the propaganda department from 1931, the Warsaw and Lviv trials of 1935–1936, break with Colonel Melnyk’s Provid, the Act of June 30, 1941, imprisonment in Sachsenhausen, post-war emigration, and circumstances of death. The chapter “Historical Decision” explains why the revolutionary OUN rejected any association of its actions with the policy of Hitler’s Germany. Illustrations show Bandera from 1927 to photographs of his funeral and grave in Munich; the book opens with a reproduction of a sculptural portrait.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePetro Mirchuk (1913–1999) — OUN member from the early 1930s, Regional Executive official, prisoner in Polish jails and the German Auschwitz concentration camp, in the United States from 1950; historian of the liberation movement, author of “An Outline of the History of the OUN” and “The Ukrainian Insurgent Army 1942–1952.” He wrote as a direct participant in the events, so his works are simultaneously a source and a partisan version of history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe edition was published by two organizations of the overseas nationalist milieu — the Organization of the Defense of the Four Freedoms of Ukraine in New York and the Ukrainian Liberation League in Toronto, which successively published literature on the liberation struggle for the community in the United States and Canada in the early 1960s; printing was commissioned in London. 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The author clearly indicates the limits of his knowledge—a question mark in parentheses means that the data is approximate or unverified, and in the preface he asks UPA and OUN veterans to send him corrections and biographies, “for time does not wait.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePetro Sodol (1935–2025) was a researcher of UPA history, born in Mykolaivka in the Buchach region into a family of a centurion in the Army of the Ukrainian People’s Republic. From 1983, he was a member of the Publishing Committee of the “Chronicle of the UPA” and the compiler of its two volumes, the author of the English-language survey “UPA: They Fought Hitler and Stalin” (1987), and a platoon sergeant in the “Forest Devils” regiment. 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The book records this turning point: the OUN program, approved by the Fifth Gathering, the new organization of the organization, adopted by the Sixth, the foundations of the Ukrainian Nationalist Movement, resolutions and decisions, an appeal to compatriots in Ukraine, a declaration to the free world, and a call to the OUN cadres.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection opens with speeches at the opening of both gatherings. General of the Army of the UNR Mykola Kapustiansky (1879–1969) commemorates Symon Petliura, Yevhen Konovalets, Mykola Stsiborsky, Oleh Olzhych, and Olena Teliha. Oleh Shtul-Zhdanovich (1917–1977) convened the Sixth Gathering as the first deputy of the late head, and at it he himself headed the OUN — the appeal to the people directly states that the helm has been passed to the younger generation. A separate section is formed by reports: Yaroslav Haivas \"Remarks on Our Revolutionary Policy\", O. Rohach \"Problems of Modern Ukraine and the Tasks of the OUN\", V. 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Height “227”: a novella from the liberation struggles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e[Thionville, 1951]. — 184 pp. — Printed by Imprimerie Beresniak, 12 rue Lagrange, Paris.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished in a softcover with thick cream-colored paper, printed in dark blue ink: an ornamental meander border, the author’s name, the title in decorative hatched lettering, a subtitle in italics, and a floral vignette; the back cover is plain. The edges of the cover show wear, with tears and paper loss along the lower spine and the bottom edge of the back cover, and brown spots in the lower right corner of the front cover. The paper is uniformly darkened, with occasional spots along the edges; the text block is sewn and securely bound. The last leaf and the inside of the back cover bear the author’s blue stamp: “AFNER, Boîte Postale N° 9, THIONVILLE (Moselle), France.” Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished during the author’s lifetime. 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The dedication on the verso of the title page addresses the “Duty” series of works to the soldiers of the Army of the Ukrainian People’s Republic, the Army of the Western Ukrainian People’s Republic, and the fighters of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army “who fought and continue to fight with weapons in their hands”—in 1951, this word still referred to the present tense.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHryhoriy Afner (1890–after 1952) was a centurion in the Army of the Ukrainian People’s Republic, born into a burgher family in the Kyiv Governorate. Mobilized in 1914, he became an ensign that same year; during the liberation struggles, he commanded the Zaporizhzhia Separate Cavalry Company and served in the headquarters of the 5th Black Sea Brigade of the 2nd Volyn Division. He emigrated to Poland in 1921 and to France in the 1920s, where he was among the organizers of Ukrainian public life and an active member of the Ukrainian Military Society. He wrote about the war as a participant: he also published the novella “Poruchnyk Ilko Vovcharenko” (Paris, 1952) and the collection of stories “Between Kyiv and Paris.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book was printed in the Parisian printing house of the Beresniak family on rue Lagrange—the same one that printed Bulgakov’s novel “The Days of the Turbins” (1927) and Nabokov’s “Invitation to a Beheading” (1938). The year and place of publication are not stated on the copy and are determined from the printing house’s register: Thionville, 1951. The author’s stamp with a postal box address in Thionville indicates that this copy was sold directly to readers by him.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"1","offer_id":64589842383219,"sku":"SKU-00373","price":4500.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15528951021939.jpg?v=1793986021"},{"product_id":"afner-hryhorii-za-lviv-paryzh-1952","title":"Hryhorii Afner. Beyond Lviv: Stories from the Days of the Struggle for Liberation. Paris, 1952","description":"\u003cp\u003eHryhoriy Afner. Za Lviv: Stories from the Days of the Liberation Struggles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eParis: published by the author, 1952. — 199 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSoftcover edition with a thick, textured paper cover, printed in dark blue ink: an ornamental border, the author's name, title, the italicized subtitle \"A Story from the Liberation Struggles,\" and a floral vignette; the back cover is plain. The cover shows slight, uneven darkening and a few small spots; pencil markings appear on the back. The text block shows natural yellowing, with the top right corner of one sheet folded down. The text block is securely sewn, with no missing pages. Condition: very good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished during the author's lifetime. 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On the reverse of the title page is a dedication of the entire \"Duty\" cycle to the soldiers of the Army of the Ukrainian People's Republic, the Army of the Western Ukrainian People's Republic, and the fighters of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, \"who, with weapons in their hands, have fought and continue to fight.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHryhoriy Afner (1890–after 1952) was a centurion in the Army of the Ukrainian People's Republic, commander of the Zaporizhzhia Separate Cavalry Hundred, and later an emigrant in France. He wrote about the war as a participant: in addition to this book, he published the novels \"Height '227'\" and \"Lieutenant Ilko Vovcharenko,\" both in the early 1950s, as well as \"The Fatherland Calls.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book was published at the author's own expense without a publishing house, with rights reserved in Ukrainian, French, and English on the reverse of the title page; Afner received orders at his P.O. box in Thionville (Moselle). Such self-published editions by veterans were mostly distributed by mail among their own people and are rarely found on the market.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"1","offer_id":64589842776435,"sku":"SKU-00378","price":4500.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15528951218547.jpg?v=1793986021"},{"product_id":"slovo-i-zbroia-antolohiia-poezii-upa-toronto-1968","title":"Word and Weapon: An Anthology of Ukrainian Poetry Dedicated to the UPA, 1942–1967. 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Library of Ukrainian Studies; vol. 29). — 22 cm. — Printed by the Homyn Ukrainy Publishing House, 140 Bay Street, Toronto.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBound in dark cherry-wood leatherette, with an original dust jacket by Volodymyr Lasovsky: an olive-green field on a cream background, the title and a composition in which a lyre and a submachine gun are crossed — word and arms, printed in dark red; the monograms “V” and “L” in the lower corners, the title in red on the spine. The dust jacket is yellowed at the edges and slightly soiled, with a crease and a short tear at the top of the front cover, rubbing and small tears along the edges and spine folds; a bookstore sticker with the price “$7.00” is in the upper corner of the back cover. The title is printed in three colors, with a black square and a red-and-white branch. The text block is tight, the paper is clean, without stains or inscriptions. Condition: very good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book has historical and cultural value and is of collector’s interest; Volodymyr Lasovsky’s artistic design has independent artistic value.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe anthology brought together two literatures that had hitherto existed separately: the poetry of the Ukrainian underground, written in hideouts and reproduced on mimeograph machines, and the poetry of emigration. The material is organized into sections — “The Forerunners of the Creation of the Armed Forces of the Ukrainian National Army” (works written before and during World War II), the word of the UPA poets, poems from the publications of the regional UPA and OUN propaganda center of 1945–1950. Here are Bohdan Ihor Antonych, Vasyl Barka, Svyatoslav Hordynskyi, Bohdan Kravtsov, Yevhen Malaniuk, Leonid Mosendz, Oleksander Oles, Oleh Olzhych, Todosi Osmachko, Vasyl Pachovskyi, Olena Telyha, Vasyl Symonenko, Yar Slavutych, Marko Boyeslav, Stepan Khryn, Volodymyr Yaniv — over a hundred names. The book concludes with biographical notes and portraits; for many of them, the line “the poet’s fate is unknown” is included.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe compiler and author of the biographical data — Leonid Poltava (1921–1990), a poet, prose writer, and journalist who emigrated from DP camps to New York; his own poem “1709” is also in the catalog. The artistic design is by Volodymyr Lasovskyi (1907–1975) — a painter, graphic artist, and art historian, a student of Oleksa Novakivskyi’s school in Lviv and the Paris Academy of Fernand Léger, a member of the ANUM, who lived in New York from 1959 and headed the New York branch of the Association of Ukrainian Artists in America.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book was published in 1968, on the 25th anniversary of the UPA, at the expense of three associations of former UPA soldiers — in the USA, Canada, and Europe — and issued as the 29th volume of the Shevchenko Scientific Society’s “Library of Ukrainian Studies,” printed by the Homyn Ukrainy press in Toronto. 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Published through the efforts and funds of the Munich branch of the Ukrainian Christian Workers' Movement (UKHRR).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher's cover of grey-olive paper with title text; the pamphlet is stapled together with two staples. The cover shows natural darkening and slight wear at the edges; the lower end of the spine is slightly rubbed; there are several reddish stains at the top of the back cover; prices for West Germany, France, Belgium, Great Britain, Sweden, the USA, and Canada are printed on it. The paper of the text block is evenly yellowed, and the block is tight. At the end are explanations of abbreviations and publisher's advertisements for Suchasnist. Pencil markings \"146\", \"(29)\", \"32\" are on the front cover. On the title page, the surnames of those convicted in the Ukrainian Workers' and Peasants' Union case are printed in ink in a column: Lukyanenko, Kandyba, Virun, Lutskiv, Libovych, Borovnytskyi, Kypysh. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book has historical and cultural value as an early document of the Ukrainian dissident movement, smuggled out of a Soviet camp and published in the West.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIvan Kandyba, a political prisoner in a Mordovian camp, smuggled a letter to First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine Petro Shelest out of the camp in 1966. It is a complaint about the closed 1961 trial of members of the Ukrainian Workers' and Peasants' Union (URSS) — an underground group of Lviv lawyers who advocated for Ukraine's withdrawal from the USSR by referendum. In May 1961, the Lviv Regional Court sentenced Lev Lukyanenko to death, later commuted to 15 years in prison, Kandyba to 15 years, and the rest to 10 years. At the end of the publication are explanations of Soviet abbreviations — from \"KDB\" to articles of the Criminal Code of the Ukrainian SSR — for the Western reader.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIvan Kandyba (1930–2002) — lawyer, dissident, political prisoner, one of the founders of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group. Born in the village of Stulno in Volodavshchyna (now Poland), his family was deported to the Ukrainian SSR in 1945. Graduated from the Faculty of Law at Lviv University (1953), worked as a notary, judge, and lawyer. Served a full 15-year sentence in Mordovian and Perm camps and Vladimir Prison; in 1981, he was sentenced again to 10 years in special-regime camps and 5 years of exile; released in 1988. 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There is a tear with a crease along the right edge of the back cover, and the lower corner of the spine is frayed with some paper loss; the corners and edges of the front cover are creased. The text block is firm, sewn, and tightly bound; the pages are evenly yellowed, with no tears or missing text. On the reverse of the front cover are illegible scribbles in blue ink and pencil. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe first collected edition of these works. The book has historical and cultural value and is of interest to collectors.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEverything collected here was written in hideouts. The title of the collection was taken from a pamphlet of miniatures by the underground author Marta Hai, published in Ukraine in 1950; under it, the London publishers compiled sketches, miniatures, stories, legends, and memoirs that had first appeared in separate issues or on the pages of the underground press — the preface mentions the youth magazine “Na Zminu” (No. 8, July 1950) and the UPA publication “Chornyi Lis” (Nos. 1–10, July 1949), — which were later partially reprinted in emigré periodicals. Chronologically, the texts cover the war years and the post-war underground; geographically, they span all of Ukraine: Marta Hai’s “Rozvidovanytsia” and “Khrest Zasluhy,” O. Ilynska’s “Oblaiva” and “Posiv,” B. Kalyna’s “Odnoi Doby,” M. Perelesnyk’s “Kryvavi Rozhi,” M. Boyeslav’s “Legenda pro Heroia,” U. Levytsch’s “V Pobyti i v Boyu,” and Vyshatytsch’s “U Chorhom Lisi.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe names in the table of contents are underground pseudonyms. Marta Hai was Halyna Holovyd (1922–2003), a courier and employee of Petro Fedun “Poltava” in the educational and political department of the UPA Main Military Staff; arrested in Lviv on May 5, 1950, she served fifteen years in camps and prisons. M. Perelesnyk was Liudmyla Foi (1923–1950), one of the organizers of the OUN underground in Kyiv and the author of “Kryvavi Rozhi”; killed in battle in Volyn on July 19, 1950. M. Boyeslav was Mykhailo Diachenko (1910–1952), a regional propaganda officer for the UPA in the Carpathians, a poet and publicist, killed in battle fighting an MDB special police unit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Ukrainian Publishing Union (Ukrainian Publishers Ltd., 200 Liverpool Road, London N1) was founded in 1949 primarily to publish the monthly “Vyzvolnyi Shliakh” and became the main Ukrainian publishing center in Great Britain. The cover was designed by Robert Lisovsky (1893–1982) — a student of Mykhailo Boichuk and Heorhii Narbut, and the designer of the emblem featuring a lily and a trident, from 1945 in England.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64589843661171,"sku":"SKU-00393","price":3500.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15528951841139.jpg?v=1793986908"},{"product_id":"tiutiunnyk-zymovyi-pokhid-1919-20-ch-1-niu-iork-1966","title":"Yurko Tyutyunnyk. Winter Campaign of 1919–20, Part 1, Political Review. New York, 1966","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Russians are great artists at making promises they never intend to keep.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYurko Tyutyunnyk. Winter Campaign 1919–20: A Political Review with Documents in the Text. — 3rd edition. Part 1.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNew York: Chortoryski Publishing House, 1966. — 99, [1] pp.: portrait. — (Materials and Notes on the History of the Liberation Struggle; vol. 1). — (Studio-Scientific Materials; part 8).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYellow paper publisher's cover: title in black typesetting font on the front cover, below it the publisher's mark in the form of an open book with the letters \"ВЕЧ\" and a round emblem with heraldic shields — a lion, an eagle, and a rider. Soiling and dark stains along the spine edge in the upper left corner of the front cover, occasional foxing on both sides, minor rubbing along the edges and corners. Cream-colored, clean paper block, with occasional reddish foxing on the title page; firm block, no losses. Owner's signature in ink and a round black stamp with a number on the title page. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book has historical and cultural value and is of collector's interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe first part is a political review of events from November 1919 to early 1920, written by a participant and one of the leaders of those events. In eight chapters: General Tarnavsky's \"separate terms\" and the transfer of the Ukrainian Galician Army to Denikin, the conferences in Starokostiantyniv and Nova Chortoryia, Volhynia and the \"Korosten Instructions\", delegations to Red Moscow, the insurgent movement of Otamans Hryhoriev, Zelenyi, Angel, Sokolovsky, and the state center's attitude toward it. The appendices from p. 90 present documents of the period — the appeal \"To the Intelligentsia of Ukraine\", a radio broadcast to the elders and Cossacks of the Volunteer Army, letters from the Chairman of the Council of People's Ministers of the UNR, Isaak Mazepa, an extract from the manifesto of the All-Ukrainian Revolutionary Committee. Before the text — a portrait of the author with the inscription \"Commander of the II Winter Campaign, General-Khorunzhii Yuriy Tyutyunnyk\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYuriy (Yurko) Tyutyunnyk (1891–1930) — General-Khorunzhii of the UNR Army, born in Kyiv Oblast. During the First Winter Campaign, he commanded the Kyiv Division; in 1921, he led the Second Winter Campaign, which ended in tragedy near Bazar. In 1923, the GPU lured him from emigration to Soviet Ukraine; in 1929, he was arrested, and in 1930, shot. 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