Pratsia (1927–34)

Pratsia (1927–34) (Work). A weekly organ of the Ukrainian Party of Labor (1927–32) and the Ukrainian Peasant Alliance (1933–4), a front organization of Sel-Rob. Published in Lviv and edited by R. Skazynsky (to 1930) and A. Maletsky, it initially supported Yevhen Petrushevych but later became pro-Soviet, for which stance it was eventually closed down by the Polish authorities. Its circulation in 1930 was 1,500.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 4 (1993).]