The Beginnings of “Rukh”: An Interview with Pavlo Movchan

Abstract

Pavlo Movchan, a poet and one of the secretaries of the Kiev writers’ organization, was involved in the formation of the Popular Movement of Ukraine for Perestroika, or “Rukh,” from its beginnings, and is a member of the Ukrainian Writers’ Union “Rukh” Initiative Group and a Ukrainian people’s deputy. The following interview was conducted on fune 24, 1989, at a conference on “Glasnost’, Perestroika and Ukraine” sponsored by the Ukrainian Research Program at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign.