Borotbists [SEP] dissolved or abolished
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In March 1919 it assumed the name Ukrainian Party of Socialist-Revolutionary-Borotbists (Communists) (, ), and in August the same year the name was changed to Ukrainian Communist Party (Borotbists) (, ). Its leaders, among others, were Vasyl Blakytnyy, Hryhoriy Hrynko, Ivan Maistrenko and Oleksander Shumskyy.
The Borotbists twice applied to the Executive Committee of the Communist International to be allowed to affiliate with the Communist International. On February 26, 1920, the Communist International by a special decision
Hryhoriy Hrynko
Hryhoriy Fedorovych Hrynko (November 18, 1890, N.S. November 30), Shtepivka; - March 15, 1938; , ; , ) was a Soviet Ukrainian statesman who held high office in the government of the Soviet Union.
Hrynko was a leader of the Ukrainian Borotbists, and joined to the Communist Party (bolshevik) of Ukraine when the Borotbists were dissolved by the Comintern. As former member of the defunct pro-independence party he was purged in 1922 for "nationalist deviation", but regained favour