Ivan Maistrenko Author

Ivan Maistrenko (18991984) was a veteran member of the Ukrainian socialist and communist movement, part of the generation that participated in the revolutionary struggle between 19171920. A Borotbist partisan in 19181920, he worked as a journalist in the 1920s, becoming deputy director of the All-Ukrainian Communist Institute of Journalism in 1931. A survivor of the GULAG, he lived as a refugee in Germany after 1945 writing numerous works on Soviet politics, economics, history and socialist theory.