Rebet, D. (2018). Spohady [Memoirs] (Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Modern Ukrainian History and Society; Institute of Historical Research, Franko National University of Lviv; Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta). Manuskrypt-Lviv. (Biblioteka “Ukrainy modernoi,” seriia “Spohady, shchodennyky, interviu” [Library of Ukraina Moderna, series “Memoirs, Diaries, Interviews”]).
Annotation: This volume presents an interview with Daria Rebet (1913–1992), a prominent figure in the nationalist movement, recorded in Munich in 1989 by Professor Peter Potichnyj, executive editor of Litopys UPA. The text is significant and engaging above all because of the remarkable personality of Rebet herself, who at the time headed the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists Abroad (known as the “dviikari”). The memoirs shed light on a range of aspects of OUN history, particularly the internal dynamics of the organization across different periods.
The preface and commentary on the interview were written by Doctor of Historical Sciences (habilitation equivalent) Oleksandr Zaitsev. The volume also features an introductory essay by historians of the liberation movement Mykola Posivnych and Vasyl Brelius, who focus on the struggle for the democratization of the OUN that Daria Rebet, together with her husband Lev Rebet, waged from 1940 onward, and with particular intensity between 1944 and 1954. It was this struggle, above all, that defined Rebet’s place in the history of the nationalist movement.