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"Mussolini through the Eyes of Ukrainians" is a book that can be safely called a cause of intellectual discomfort. It brings the controversial and stigmatised figure of the Italian dictator back into the context of the present, reviving the note of favourable perception of Mussolini by Ukrainian intellectuals in the period between the World Wars. It also introduces dissonance into the recently popular national liberation discourse of Ukrainians and reveals them as sympathisers of dictatorship and totalitarian social experiment.

The works of Mykhailo Ostroverkha and Sviatoslav Boyarych presented in this book were published in 1934 and 1938 in the capital of Galicia. However, they were not destined to be freely available for long, as the Soviet occupation of Lviv in 1939 began with the execution of politically unreliable prisoners and the burning of ideologically hostile literature. Since then, this layer of Ukrainian political thought has been lost. However, the collection Mussolini through the Eyes of Ukrainians is a bold attempt to reconstruct it and recreate an atypical perspective on the historical figure of Benito Mussolini.