Revolutionary Ukrainian Party

political organization, Ukraine

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The Revolutionary Ukrainian Party (RUP) was a political organization that emerged in Kharkiv around the turn of the 20th century. It was one of the clandestine societies, known as hromadas, that aimed to promote Ukrainian culture and education under challenging conditions. The RUP was significant because it was the first group to officially advocate for the political goal of a "one, single, indivisible, free, independent Ukraine" in 1900. This marked a crucial step in the development of Ukrainian national consciousness and political thought during a period of significant Russian imperial control and suppression of Ukrainian distinctiveness.12

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Russian Empire
Other political movements
…autonomy for it, was the Revolutionary Ukrainian Party, founded in 1901. It split soon into socialist, radical, and conservative nationalist sections. Both the Polish and the Ukrainian movements received help from their allies in Austrian Galicia. Among Russian Jews, the main trends in these years were on the one hand…
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…autonomy for it, was the Revolutionary Ukrainian Party, founded in 1901. It split soon into socialist, radical, and conservative nationalist sections. Both the Polish and the Ukrainian movements received help from their allies in Austrian Galicia. Among Russian Jews, the main trends in these years were on the one hand…
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Ukraine
Ukraine under direct imperial Russian rule
…in Kharkiv developed into the Revolutionary Ukrainian Party, which in a pamphlet published in 1900 advanced for the first time as a political goal “one, single, indivisible, free, independent Ukraine.”
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…in Kharkiv developed into the Revolutionary Ukrainian Party, which in a pamphlet published in 1900 advanced for the first time as a political goal “one, single, indivisible, free, independent Ukraine.”
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