LONDON MAGAZINE “THE UKRAINIAN REVIEW” AS A PROMOTER OF THE IDEA OF UKRAINIAN STATEHOOD IN THE WESTERN WORLD

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LONDON MAGAZINE “THE UKRAINIAN REVIEW” AS A PROMOTER OF THE IDEA OF UKRAINIAN STATEHOOD IN THE WESTERN WORLD

Journal Title: Український інформаційний простір - Year 2018, Vol 1, Issue 2

Abstract

The article is written on the basis of the library and archive collections in London during the author’s UK internship. Its value lies in the fact that this is the first special study of the history of the English-language magazine of Ukrainians, published in London for almost 40 years in the second half of the twentieth century and intended for a foreign reader. The author formulates three main reasons why Ukrainians founded such a magazine in London: to break the stereotype of the world’s perception of Eastern Europe through the prism of the Russian Empire, to remind Europe about the Ukrainian issue still unresolved after the defeat of the Ukrainian Revolution of 1917–1921, to expand the number of foreign politicians and parliamentarians who sympathized with the Ukraine’s revival as an independent state The founders of the magazine were Union of the Ukrainians in the United Kingdom, the League of Liberation of Ukraine in Canada and the Organization for the Defense of Four Liberties of Ukraine in the United States. Two categories of readers a new magazine was aimed at, have been identified. First: English-speaking foreigners from among politicians, parliamentarians, journalists. Second: young Ukrainians who grew up in emigration and did not learn Ukrainian. The main principle of the editorial policy of the magazine was proclaimed: to be an authoritative source of information about the situation of Ukrainians under the occupation of Russia, to explain the distinctness of the history of Ukrainians and their statehood aspirations to foreigners, to get them acquainted with culture, literature and traditions of Ukrainians. In the analysis of the magazine’s mass circulation policy the attention is drawn to the fact that for 38 years circulation was 1,500 copies, minimum — 950. Half of this pressrun was accounted for subscribers, the other half was distributed free of charge. The magazine was distributed in accordance with an addressees’ list. It was sent to libraries, academic institutions, newspaper editors, political parties, universities, colleges and schools, as well as to individual politicians, scholars, journalists, parliamentarians in most parts of Western Europe, America and Asia. In the analysis of financial grounds, it was stressed that losses from the magazine’s publication were covered exclusively by donations from Ukrainians.

Authors and Affiliations

Mykola Tymoshyk

Keywords

The magazine “The Ukrainian Review” Ukraine Ukrainian emigration editorial policy range of topics magazine promotion distribution network circulation policy Anti-Bolshevik Block of Peoples bulletin “Congress Record”

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EP ID EP493525
DOI 10.31866/2616-7948.2.2018.152005
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