Ivan Maistrenko
Ukrainian revolutionary From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ukrainian revolutionary From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ivan Vasyliovych Maistrenko (Ukrainian: Іва́н Васи́льович Майстре́нко; 1899–1984) was a Ukrainian revolutionary. He became a communist partisan during the Ukrainian Civil War of 1918–1920. He became a journalist and by 1921 was deputy director of the All-Ukrainian Communist Institute of Journalism. As an opponent of Joseph Stalin, he was arrested but survived the gulag becoming a post-war refugee in West Germany. During the Nazi Germany occupation, in 1942 Maisternko was a director of Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus in Kiev.
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He was a prominent member of the Ukrainian Revolutionary Democratic Party and edited their anti-Stalinist workers paper Vpered. He also wrote a book Borotbism about the movement of that name.[1]
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