Volodymyr Vynnychenko
Volodymyr Vynnychenko | |
|---|---|
| Володимир Винниченко | |
Vynnychenko in 1910 | |
| 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 – 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 | July 28, 1880 |
| Died | March 6, 1951 (aged 70) Mougins, France |
| 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. 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 escaping persecution by Russian authorities.
Vynnychenko's works reflect his immersion in the Ukrainian revolutionary milieu, as well as his life both among impoverished working-class people, and among émigrés living in Western Europe. He is recognized as a leading Ukrainian modernist writer of the pre-revolutionary era, and an author of short stories, novels, and plays. In Soviet Ukraine between the 1930s and mid-1980s Vynnychenko's works, like those of many other Ukrainian writers, were forbidden.