Batkivshchyna

Batkivshchyna (Батьківщина; Fatherland). Publishing house of the Front of National Unity (FNYe) in Lviv, which published the popular daily Ukraïns’ki visty (1935–9) and the weekly Bat’kivshchyna (1934–9) both edited by Dmytro Paliiv, and an ideological quarterly, Peremoha (1933–6, ed Mykola Shlemkevych). It also published three book series—Ukraïns’ka Kul’turna Skarbnytsia (Ukrainian Cultural Treasury), Politychna Biblioteka FNYe (Political Library of the FNYe), and Praktychna Biblioteka (Practical Library)—and the annual almanac Bat’kivshchyna (beginning in 1936).

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 1 (1984).]