Ivan Maistrenko (1899–1984) was a

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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

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he was arrested but survived the

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becoming a post-war refugee in

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. During the

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occupation, in 1942 Maisternko was a director of

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. He was a prominent member of the

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and edited their anti-Stalinist workers paper ''Vpered''. He also wrote a book ''Borotbism'' about the movement of that name.the unknown revolution: ukraine 1917-21
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1899 births 1984 deaths People from Poltava Oblast People from Zenkovsky Uyezd Ukrainian Socialist-Revolutionary Party politicians Borotbists Communist Party of the Soviet Union members Ukrainian Communist Party politicians Ukrainian communists Ukrainian revolutionaries Russian Revolution in Ukraine {{Ukraine-politician-stub