After preliminary meetings in Berlin in 1927 and Prague in 1928, at the founding congress in Vienna in 1929 the veterans of the UVO and the student militants met and united to form the …

Discontented Ukrainian veterans founded a Ukrainian Military Organization, which in 1929 merged with student groups to form the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN). OUN leaders …

Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists [Організація українських націоналістів; Orhanizatsiia ukrainskykh natsionalistiv, or ОУН (OUN)]. A Ukrainian political movement dedicated to the …

1 This chapter analyzes discourse and writings on the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), founded in 1929 in the territories of Ukraine that were included in Poland as a result of …

Like its predecessors, the OUN worked with Germany intermittently beginning from the 1920s. The OUN was a right-wing revolutionary organization that continued to rely on the terrorist …

Authoritarian in structure, conspiratorial in its methods, and influenced by political theories that stressed the primacy of the nation over the individual and will over reason, the OUN carried …

Summary of Key Dates The Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) aimed for an independent Ukraine and was primarily active in Western Ukraine from 1929 to the 1950s. In …

During the Second World War, in 1940, the OUN split into two parts. The older, more moderate members supported Andriy Melnyk 's OUN-M, while the younger and more radical members …

The Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) was a political party, created by Ukrainian émigrés at the First Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists from 28 January – 3 February 1929 in …

In spring 1941, the OUN split into two distinct groups, OUN-Bandera, centered in Volhynia, and OUN-Mel’nyk, centered in Galicia. OUN Mel’nyk, led by Adrii Mel’nyk, included older, better …