Dmytro Levytsky ( uk, Дмитро́ Леви́цький, pl, Dymitr Lewicki) (1877–1942) was a lawyer and major political figure in western Ukraine between the two world wars. Between 1925 and 1935 he headed the

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, the largest Ukrainian political party in western Ukraine, and served as the chief of the Ukrainian delegation within the

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Biography

Dmytro Levytsky was born in the Lviv region, then part of

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, in 1877. He completed law school at the

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and during

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served as an officer in the army of

. Captured by the Russians in 1915, he spent the remainder of the war in

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. Returning to Ukraine as the Russian Empire fell apart, Levytsky helped to organize the unification of the

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with the

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. After western Ukraine was conquered by Poland in 1919, Levytsky was involved in organizing Ukrainians in

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. In 1923 he became editor of western Ukrainians' largest newspaper, , and two years later he became head of the newly formed

, the largest political party representing Ukrainians within the Polish state. Between 1928 and 1935 he was a member of the Polish parliament and was head of the Ukrainian delegation. He resigned his leadership of the party when it chose to work together with the Polish government. When western Ukraine was annexed by the Soviets, Levytsky was arrested, deported to Moscow and never heard from again.John Armstrong (1963). ''Ukrainian Nationalism''. New York: Columbia University Press, pg. 65 He died in exile in

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(1942).

References

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