The book tells about the life and political activities of Vladimir Vinnichenko (1880-1951) - a professional revolutionary, one of the leaders of the Ukrainian Social Democratic Labor Party and the Ukrainian People's Republic, an uncompromising fighter against the Leninist-Stalinist totalitarian system, a talented writer and playwright. The author polemicizes with the assessments of V. Vinnichenko as a national communist common in historiography and proves that his worldview had nothing to do with the Leninist-Stalinist system of views on the relationship between the individual, state and society. Designed for a wide range of readers, everyone who is interested in the history of Ukraine.