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UDK 061.2(73=161.2):74/.76.071.1″1906/1981″П.Андрусів

DOI https://doi.org/10.15407/nz2023.05.1256

PETRO ANDRUSIV’S CONTRIBUTION TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF INSTITUTIONS OF THE UKRAINIAN DIASPORA: SAMOPOMICH, WORLD CONGRESS OF FREE UKRAINIANS AND OTHERS

YATSIV Andriy

  • ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1421-6518
  • Master of History, Deputy Director,
  • The International Institute of Education, Culture and Diaspora Relations,
  • Lviv Polytechnic National University,
  • 32A, Stepana Bandery Street, 79013, Lviv, Ukraine,
  • Contacts: e-mail: yatsiv@gmail.com

Abstract. The article is devoted to the little-known pages of the social and organizational activities of the outstanding artist, teacher, social and cultural figure, organizer of artistic and educational life in the Ukrainian diaspora, Petro Andrusiv (1906—1981). After emigration to the USA in 1947, having lost almost all of his creative output during the bombing of Warsaw at the beginning of World War II, the artist together with his wife, the well-known singer Natalya Andrusiv, began to build a national cultural, artistic and business life in new realities. The facts of the foundation and functioning of Ukrainian institutions — the Self Reliance Organization of the New Ukrainian Emigration (later the Association of Ukrainians of America «Samopomich»), the United Ukrainian American Aid Committee (UUAAC), the World Congress of Free Ukrainians (WCFU) as well as associations of artistic and educational profiles are considered in historical science for the first time. Petro Andrusiv saw a particularly great potential for coordination of all cultural environments of the Ukrainian diaspora in order to carry out an effective cultural-educational and educational-patriotic policy in the WCFU as a new diasporic superstructure. The article is based on the materials of the chronicles, memories of P. Andrusiv and other participants of the relevant events, as well as articles and publications of the Ukrainian diaspora in the USA.

Keywords: Petro Andrusiv, the Ukrainian diaspora of the USA, Philadelphia, social and cultural institutions of emigration, culture, ideology, the World Congress of Free Ukrainians, the educational ideal of a Ukrainian, the Association of Ukrainians of America «Self Reliance», UUAAC (United Ukrainian American Aid Committee), UUAA (Union of Ukrainian Artists in America), Ukrainian Art Studio in Philadelphia, national education, historical and cultural memory.

Received 9.10.2023

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