Information and Publishing Activities of the Organization of the State Revival of Ukraine (ODVU) in the USA before World War II

О. Bohuslavsky

Abstract


The purpose of the study is to clarify, systematize, and introduce into scientific circulation factual material regarding the information and publishing activities of the Ukrainian Society of Ukrainian Emigration in the USA before World War II, and its impact on social processes in the Ukrainian emigration community in North America.

The methodological basis of the article is the principle of historicism, comprehensiveness, objectivity, reliability. Comparative, descriptive, analytical, problem-chronological methods and analysis were used to solve the research tasks.

The results. The article presents the reasons for the establishment of the ODVU, its formation, development and functioning of information and publishing activities. The socio-political and ideological conditions and tasks of the information and publishing activities of the ODVU are clarified. The main directions of the information and publishing activities of the ODVU at all stages of its activity within the studied period are substantiated. The prerequisites for the formation of the ODVU are outlined.

The scientific novelty lies in the reproduction of the information and publishing activities of the ODFU in the interwar period in the USA, the structure and ideological and thematic component of the publications of the ODFU publications were analyzed. Sources that have not yet been the subject of scientific analysis were introduced into circulation, some dates were clarified.

Practical significance. The results of the study can be used in the process of studying the courses «History of Ukrainian Journalism» and «History of Publishing» in the specialty «Journalism».

Key words: consolidation, magazine, nationalism, Organization of the Rebirth of Ukraine (ODFU), Organization of Ukrainian nationalists, publishing, «The Trident», «Ukrainian Life», Ukrainian military organization, «Vistnyk ODVU».


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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.32840/cpu2219-8741/2025.2(62).1

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