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Volodymyr Vynnychenko | |
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Володимир Винниченко | |
1st Chairman of the Directory | |
In office December 19, 1918 – February 10, 1919 | |
Preceded by | Pavlo Skoropadsky (as Hetman of Ukraine) |
Succeeded by | Symon Petliura |
1st Prime Minister of the Ukrainian People's Republic | |
In office June 28, 1917[1] – August 26, 1917 | |
President | Mykhailo Hrushevsky (speaker of Central Rada) |
Preceded by | position created |
Succeeded by | Vsevolod Holubovych |
Secretary of Internal Affairs | |
In office June 28, 1917 – January 30, 1918 | |
Prime Minister | Himself |
Preceded by | position created |
Succeeded by | Pavlo Khrystiuk |
Personal details | |
Born | Vesely Kut, Russian Empire (today – Hryhorivka, Novoukrainka Raion, Ukraine) | July 28, 1880
Died | March 6, 1951 Mougins, France | (aged 70)
Nationality | Ukrainian |
Political party | Foreign Group of Ukrainian Communists (1919) |
Other political affiliations | Ukrainian Social Democratic Labour Party (1905–1919) Revolutionary Ukrainian Party (?-1905) |
Spouse | Rosalia Yakovna Vynnychenko (Lifshits) |
Alma mater | Kyiv University |
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Volodymyr Kyrylovych Vynnychenko (Ukrainian: Володимир Кирилович Винниченко; July 28 [O.S. July 16] 1880 – March 6, 1951) was a Ukrainian statesman, political activist, writer, playwright and artist who served as the first prime minister of the Ukrainian People's Republic.[1][2]
As a writer, Vynnychenko is recognized in Ukrainian literature as a leading modernist writer in pre-revolutionary Ukraine, who wrote short stories, novels, and plays, but in Soviet Ukraine his works were forbidden, like that of many other Ukrainian writers, from the 1930s until the mid-1980s. Prior to his entry onto the stage of Ukrainian politics, he was a long-time political activist, who lived abroad in Western Europe from 1906 to 1914. His works reflect his immersion in the Ukrainian revolutionary milieu, among impoverished and working-class people, and among émigrés from the Russian Empire living in Western Europe.