The “transnationalization” of Ukrainian dissent New York city ukrainian students and the defense of human rights, 1968–80

This article recounts the story of the New York City Ukrainian Students Hromada, an association founded in 1968 by students who were unhappy with the political views of the previous generations of Ukrainian diaspora in the USA. This group embraced the international cause of the defense of human rights but also fostered a different version of Ukrainian nationalism, which was strongly influenced by the ideas of the Ukrainian cultural dissidents in the Soviet Union. These high idealities merged in an original transnational organization, the Committee to Defend Soviet Political Prisoners, which in the 1970s fought along with other associations for the respect of human rights in both socialist and capitalist countries.