Ukrainian Workers' Party Of Romania

The Ukrainian Workers' Party of Romania ( uk, Партія українських працюючих Румунії, ro, Partidul muncitorilor ucrainieni din România), also known as ''Vyzvolennia'' ( uk, Визволення, "Liberation"; ro, Vîzvolenia), was a

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left-wing Left-wing politics describes the range of political ideologies that support and seek to achieve social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy. Left-wing politics typically involve a concern for those in soci ...

political organisation, active primarily in northern

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, which militated for workers' and minority rights, and whose stated ultimate goal was uniting those areas of Romania with

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majority with the neighbouring

Soviet Ukraine The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic ( uk, Украї́нська Радя́нська Соціалісти́чна Респу́бліка, ; russian: Украи́нская Сове́тская Социалисти́ческая Респ ...

. Created in 1929 by members of the underground Communist Party of Bukovina and a major part of the Ukrainian section of the International Social Democratic Party, ''Vyzvolennia'' was associated throughout its existence with the Worker-Peasant Bloc, a

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for the then-illegal

Communist Party of Romania The Romanian Communist Party ( ro, Partidul Comunist Român, , PCR) was a communist party in Romania. The successor to the pro-Bolshevik wing of the Socialist Party of Romania, it gave ideological endorsement to a communist revolution that woul ...

. In spite of harassment from the Romanian authorities, the organisation was able to obtain several electoral gains in the late 1920s and early 1930s, including electing one of its members to the

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on the Bloc's list. Crackdown followed soon afterwards, with the party banned and most of its leadership imprisoned. Driven underground, the organisation ultimately disbanded in 1934. {{Historical Romanian political parties, state=collapsed 1929 establishments in Romania 1934 disestablishments in Romania Communist parties in Romania Defunct communist parties Defunct nationalist parties Defunct socialist parties in Romania History of Bukovina Left-wing nationalist parties Political parties disestablished in 1934 Political parties established in 1929 Political parties of minorities in Romania Romanian Communist Party Ukrainian diaspora in Romania