
Dmytro Dontsov — Ideologist of Ukrainian Nationalism
2003, 21 min
Zaporizhzhia Regional State Television and Radio Company. The program “Dmytro Dontsov. Starry Integral” for June 7, 2003 is dedicated to the life story and formation of Dmytro Dontsov as the main ideologist of Ukrainian integral nationalism.
Contains interviews with researchers and black-and-white chronicles.
Comments: UPA veteran Vasyl Markovych; historian, head of the Department of History of the Bohdan Khmelnytskyi Melitopol State University Viktor Gudzia; head of the Dmytro Dontsov Regional Society Oleksandr Chernenko.
Reference: Dmytro Dontsov is a Ukrainian publicist, philosopher, political figure and the main ideologist of integral nationalism. He was an active participant in the struggle for the independence of Ukraine, the founder and editor of influential magazines and the author of the book “Nationalism”, which became the basis of the new nationalist ideology. Dontsov is known for his views on the importance of the national elite and the role of the struggle in the formation of the nation. His ideas had a great influence on the Ukrainian nationalist environment, in particular on the formation of the OUN and the UPA.