Dmytro Dontsov
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Dmytro Dontsov
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| Born | August 29, 1883 Melitopol, Russian Empire |
| Died | March 30, 1973 (aged 89) Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Occupation | nationalist writer, publisher, journalist, political thinker and activist, literary critic |
| Nationality | Ukrainian |
| Alma mater | Saint Petersburg University (1907) |
| Literary movement | nationalistic |
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Dmytro Ivanovych Dontsov (Ukrainian: Дмитро Іванович Донцов) (August 29, 1883 – March 30, 1973) was a Ukrainian nationalist writer, publisher, journalist and political thinker whose radical ideas were a major influence on the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists.
Dontsov was born in Melitopol, Taurida Governorate (today - Zaporizhia Oblast) to an old cossack officer's family, and in 1900 moved to Saint Petersburg to study law. In 1905 he joined the USDRP. During that time he was arrested due to his involvement in socialist politics, and soon after that moved to Vienna in 1909. He then moved to Lviv, where in 1917 he completed his doctorate in law. In 1913 he quit the USDRP due to the conflict based on the national question.
During the time of the Ukrainian revolution Dontsov served in the government of Hetman Pavlo Skoropadsky, where he became the head of the government's official news agency. During that time together with Vyacheslav Lypynsky and Volodymyr Shemet he created the Ukrainian Democratic-Agrarian Party (Khliboroby-Demokraty). With the fall of the Ukrainian State between 1919 and 1922 he lived in Switzerland, where he headed the press bureau of the Ukrainian People's Republic. In 1922-1932 he was the editor-in-chief of the "Literaturno-naukovyi vistnyk" (Literary Scientific Herald), in 1933-1939 Dontsov was publishing and editing "Vistnyk" (Herald).
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