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The work of Ivan Bahrianyi (1906-1963), a talented Ukrainian writer and active social and political activist who was awarded the Taras Shevchenko State Prize of Ukraine (1992), was silenced for a long time in Soviet Ukraine. Only recently, his novels The Tigers, The Garden of Gethsemane, and Man Running Over the Edge have been published here.

The reader has already had the opportunity to get acquainted with several journalistic works by Ivan Bahrianyi, presented in the collection «Under the Sign of the Scorpion («Smoloskypy, 1994), but only this most complete edition will give a comprehensive picture of the rich and capacious journalism of the writer. The book - in the chronology of the first publication - contains reports, articles, pamphlets, reflections, essays (mostly in accordance with the norms of modern Ukrainian spelling) that were published in 1946-1963 mainly in the journal & laquoOur Positions and the newspaper Ukrainian News, publications of the Ukrainian Revolutionary Democratic Party (URDP), which was organised and led by the author in exile during 1948-1963.

In Soviet Ukraine, communist propaganda branded Ivan Bahrianyi an enemy of the people, qualified him as a nationalist and a fierce anti-Soviet, and in exile, his enemies called him an NKVD agent, a servant of Moscow, and accused him of communism. In fact, he was a courageous patriot, an honest writer for whom the artistic word and, above all, journalism were a means of fighting for the national dignity and freedom of his people, for the state independence of Ukraine. He criticised the Stalinist totalitarian regime with sharp words, exposed Russian great-power chauvinism, promptly responded to events in the USSR, analysed world political life, etc.

The journalism of Ivan Bahrianyi, which vividly reflects his ascetic political and organisational activities in exile, has largely remained relevant today, it is instructive in many ways and, as the reader will see, very interesting.