Making Ukraine Soviet: Literature and Cultural Politics under Lenin and Stalin, Olena Palko

Описание: Full interview with Dr. Olena Palko on "Making Ukraine Soviet: Literature and Cultural Politics under Lenin and Stalin," London, England, 13 January 2021.

Book is about the cultural history of interwar Ukraine. Culture and literary politics of the communist party, 1920s. Focus on Mykola Khvylovy and Pavlo Tychyna
0:46 1920s-1930s most fascinating period in Ukrainian history. Process of cultural sovietization of Ukraine, how Soviet Ukraine became possible, litarary canon
1:50 Greatest Ukrainian artists in Ukraine: Mykola Khvylovy (prose), Pavlo Tychyna (poet), Oleksander Dovzhenko (film), Les Kurbas (theatre), Mykola Kulish (playwright) - Микола Хвильовий, Павло Тичина, Олександр Довженко, Лесь Курбас, Микола Куліш
2:40 Tychyna wrote an unofficial anthem of the Ukrainian People's Republic. Later became a eulogist for the Soviet regime. Khvylovy was a member of the communist party but became a harsh critic of centralized power
3:30 Khvylovy commits suicide in 1933
4:37 Kharkiv was the capital of Ukraine 1918-1922, cultural centre of Ukraine
5:25 Relationship between old capital of Kyiv, and new capital Kharkiv. Interesting dynamic, interaction between both capitals. Pavlo Tychyna
8:55 Process of sovietization of culture in Ukraine: intervene in artistic products, availability of resources, decrees, controlling distribution networks, etc., Expectations of socially oriented writers
10:56 Expectations of readers, audience
12:41 Non-bolshevik communist parties in Ukraine. Ukrainian national communism as political history
14:05 Primary research, primary writings, letters, memoirs, documents, primary and secondary sources
16:02 Mykola Khvyloy sources in Ukrainian archives
17:30 Role of Pavlo Tychyna's wife. Pavlo Tychnyna imposed self-censorship, became cautious with his writings
19:32 Anectdote related to Tychyna
20:40 New literary canon in Ukraine. Rehabilitation of Mykola Khvylovy
22:30 Non-linear evolution of Tychyna's writing
23:15 Understanding Ukrainian culture in the 1920s. Mayhill C. Fowler

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