Stepan Tudor
Ukrainian Soviet writer (1892–1941)
Stepan Yosypovych Tudor (Ukrainian: Степа́н Йо́сипович Ту́дор, real name Oleksyuk: Олексю́к; 25 August 1892 – 22 June 1941) was a Ukrainian writer, journalist, communist activist and doctor of philosophy.
Biography
Stepan Oleksyuk was born on August 25, 1892, in a priestly family. From an early age, he experienced financial hardship and became a worker when he was a child. In 1914, while a first-year student at Lviv University, he was mobilized to join the Austro-Hungarian army. At the front, he was captured by the Russians, which caused him to stay in Dnieper, Ukraine. A participant in the Civil War in Ukraine on the Bolshevik side, he fought in the Korsun Revolutionary Brigade, then an organizer of cooperatives, and a worker in the education sector.
Returning to Galicia in 1923, he actively promoted the ideas of Marxism and became active in the pro-Soviet communist movement. He graduated from the philosophy faculty of Lviv University and worked as a teacher in Chortkiv but was constantly in conflict with the authorities for his communist activities. From 1927, he dedicated his career to literature. He was one of the organizers of the magazine, "Vikna", a body of left-wing Lviv writers, later uniting and forming the Gorno group.
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