Author: Various
Title: Dlia Ukraini, Ch. 1 (for Ukraine, No. 1)
Description: Ditroit (Detroit): Zhinochii Viddil Ukrains'koi Get'mans'koi Organizatsii, 1950. Softcover. First edition; 8 1/4 x 6; pp. 32; olive green wraps printed in black; small nicks to tips of spine and sun-fading along margins; mild age-toning to first and last few leaves only; illustrated with photographs; very good condition. The very first issue of an uncommon journal, of which presumably two issues (?) were ever released, it was published by the Ukrainian Women's Hetman Organization - part of the Ukrainian conservative monarchist organization, which developed in Canada and the United States in the interwar era and was dedicated to the reinstating of an Ukrainian State, aka The Hetmanite. It had been an anti-Socialist government that existed from April until December of 1918, after the pro-Socialist Central Council of the Ukrainian People's Republic was dispersed and the anti-Bolshevik provisional government of Hetman of Ukraine Pavlo Skoropads'kii (1873 – 1945) was instituted. His regime was short-lived, as he and his troops could not resist the Directorate's (the provisional collegiate revolutionary state committee of the Ukrainian People's Republic) forces, led by Simon Petliura, and he abdicated his position as Hetman on December 14, 1918. The majority of the current journal was dedicated to Pavlo Skoropads'kii and his son Danilo Skoropads'kii (1904 - 1957) - a politician and supporter of his father's political endeavors. Most of it is in Ukrainian, but the last two pages contain a curious article in English, by one Joseph Bilovus, which ardently supports The Hetmanite cause. Ill.: 0. 2.

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