The MUR was founded in September 1945 in Fürth near Nuremberg, by a committee headed by Ulas Samchuk and comprising Ivan Bahrianyi, Viktor Petrov, Yuri Kosach, Ihor Kostetskyi, Ivan Maistrenko and Yuri Sherekh.
[2] Yuri Kosach, author of On Guard of the Nation, wrote of the "separation" of Ukrainian literature from Europe and the "gap" between humanism and the Ukrainian literary tradition caused by the Eurocentric Dmytro Dontsov and The Bulletin.
Dontsov's works were based upon the principles of idealism, nationalism, heroism, and voluntarism and acquired the perceptions of negative or sarcastic labels of "traditional Europeanism", "true Occidentalism", gothic, and literary imperialism.
According to Kosach, Ukrainian literary works were founded on the chivalry, activist psychology, and heroism.
The MUR's work largely focused on modernisation and globalisation of Ukrainian culture, and had 61 members at its height.