The Artistic Ukrainian Movement ( ua, Мистецький український рух), or MUR ( ua, МУР), was a literary and artistic organisation of Ukrainian writers living in

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s in post-war

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from 1945 until 1948. The MUR was founded in September 1945 in

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near

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, by a committee headed by

Ulas Samchuk Ulas Oleksiiovych Samchuk (; 20 February 1905, Derman – 9 July 1987 Toronto) was a Ukrainian writer, propagandist, publicist, journalist, and a member of the Government of the Ukrainian People's Republic in exile. He was a member of the natio ...

and comprising Ivan Bagryany,

Viktor Petrov Viktor Platonovych Petrov ( uk, Віктор Платонович Петров, pen names V. Domontovych ( uk, В. Домонтович), Viktor Ber ( uk, Віктор Бер); 10 October 1894 – 8 June 1969) was a prominent Ukrainian existenti ...

, Yuri Kosach, Ihor Kostetskyi,

Ivan Maistrenko Ivan Maistrenko (1899–1984) was a Ukrainian revolutionary. He became a communist partisan during the Ukrainian Civil War of 1918–1920. He became a journalist and by 1921 was deputy director of the All-Ukrainian Communist Institute of Journalis ...

and Yuri Sherekh. It was among the most productive periods for Volodymyr Derzhavyn. Yuri Kosach, author of ''On Guard of the Nation'' wrote of the "separation" of Ukrainian literature from Europe and the "gap" between humanism and the Ukrainian literary tradition caused by the Eurocentric Dmytro Dontsov and ''The Bulletin''. Dontsov's works were based upon the principles of

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ism, and voluntarism and acquired the perceptions of negative or sarcastic labels of " traditional Europeanism", " true Occidentalism", gothic, and literary imperialism. According to Kosach, Ukrainian literary works were founded on the

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, activist psychology, and

ism. During its existence, three congresses were held in 1945, 1947 and 1948, and several additional conferences were held. The MUR's work largely focused on modernisation and globalisation of Ukrainian culture, and had 61 members at its height.MUR
in the

Encyclopedia of Ukraine The ''Encyclopedia of Ukraine'' ( uk, Енциклопедія українознавства, translit=Entsyklopediia ukrainoznavstva), published from 1984 to 2001, is a fundamental work of Ukrainian Studies. Development The work was creat ...

, Vol. 3, 1993

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