Simon Petliura

New Ulm, Germany: Ukrains'kikh Vistei, 1968. Softcover. First edition; 6 x 8; pp. pp. 51; green wraps printed in black; a bit sun-faded along margins of wraps, else minor wear; illustrated with portrait frontis; very good.A well-written biography of Simon Petliura - controversial Ukrainian journalist, writer, politician, and national leader. Called by some "freedom fighter who tried to protect Jews" and by others a "bloody anti-Soviet terrorist' - he was assassinated in 1926 in Paris by Russian anarchist Sholom Schwartzbard. The author, Vasil Khomich Prokhoda, was an Army Colonel, social activist, and writer.