High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Volodymyr Vynnychenko (Ukrainian: , Volodymyr Kyrylovych Vynnychenko) (July 26 [O.S. July 14] 1880 March 6, 1951) was a Ukrainian writer, playwright, political activist and revolutionary, politician, statesman, and artist. Vynnychenko is recognized in Ukrainian literature as a leading modernist, prerevolutionary writer in Ukraine, who wrote short stories, novels, and plays, but in Soviet Ukraine his works were proscribed, like that of many other Ukrainian writers, from the 1930s until the mid-1980s. Prior to his entry onto the stage of Ukrainian politics, he was a long-time revolutionary activist, who lived abroad in Western Europe from 1906-1914.