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Promethean movement


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    • Prometeizm
    • Prometheanism
    • Prometheism

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    • found: Work cat: Za svobodu i nezavisimostʹ Kavkaza, 2020: (Translation of title: To freedom and independence of Caucasus)title page (Prometeevskoe dvizhenie) page 3 (political movement initiated by the Polish head of state, Józef Piłsudski, in 1918, to help non-Russian nations of the former Russian empire gain independence) page 4 (Le mouvement "Prométhée") (OCoLC)1252714085
    • found: Internet encyclopedia of Ukraine, July 9, 2021(Promethean movement: A political movement of opposition to the Soviet government, named after the mythical god Prometheus that emerged in Europe in the 1920s among émigré communities of nations under Soviet rule. Paris and Warsaw were the main centers of Promethean activity, with local chapters in Berlin, Harbin, Helsinki, Istanbul, Prague, and Teheran. Much of the Promethean movement's activity consisted of advocacy work. It was carried out mainly by local clubs through lectures, meetings, and informative gatherings aimed at acquainting the participants with the movement's struggle. The movement lasted through 1939. After the Second World War certain ideas of the Promethean movement were perpetuated by organizations such as the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations, the Paris Bloc, and the Federation of Former Central and East European Veterans)
    • found: Ent︠s︡yklopedii︠a︡ ukraïnoznavstva, 1993-:vol. 6, column 2357 (Prometeĭsʹkyĭ rukh)
    • found: Wikipedia, July 9, 2021(Prometheism or Prometheanism (Polish: Prometeizm) was a political project initiated by Józef Piłsudski, statesman of the Second Polish Republic from 1918 to 1935. Its aim was to weaken the Russian Empire and its successor states, including the Soviet Union, by supporting nationalist independence movements among the major non-Russian peoples that lived within the borders of Russia and the Soviet Union)

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