Pravda pradidiv velykykh (The Veracity of the Great Great-grandfathers)

Filadelfiia (Philadelphia): Golovnoi Upravy Organizatsii Oborony Chotyrokh Svobid Ukrainy, 1952. First Edition. Very good. First edition; 8 1/2 x 5 1/2; pp. [2], 5-95, [1]; light-brown, pictorial wraps, designed by Natalia Gerken-Rusova; spotting to margins; in about very good condition.Dmytro Dontsov (1883 - 1973) was a Ukrainian author, journalist, and a radical political thinker with great influence over the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists. Born in a Cossack officer's family, Dontsov joined the Ukrainian Social-Democratic Labor Party in 1905, was arrested shortly after for being an instigator in "Socialist politics," and was forced to move to Vienna in 1909. After the Revolution, he returned home and was appointed Head of Pavlo Skoropadsky's Government's official news agency. By 1922 Dmytro had rejected the Nationalist ideas of his youth and had increasingly become immersed in radical Nationalism. In 1939, right before the takeover of Western Ukraine by the Soviets Dontsov fled his country for Bucharest, then Prague, Germany, Paris, and the United States, until he finally settled in Toronto, where he continued writing and taught Ukrainian literature at Universite de Montreal.Natalia Gerken-Rusova (1897 - 1989) was a journalist, graphic designer, scenographer, and theater and film artist.