Serhij Jefremov, Ukraine (1876-1939)
Ukrainian author who proposed that a classless Ukrainian society and culture would make the Ukraine thoroughly democratic because class and national interest would appear as indivisible. For this view Jefremov was criticised as being a bourgeois nationalist. Jefremov was also the leader of the Ukrainian Radical Democrats. He was sentenced to death during a Stalinist show trial, one of some 200 Ukrainian writers and literary scholars who perished or were sent to concentration camps.