Making Ukraine Soviet : literature and cultural politics under Lenin and Stalin
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Making Ukraine Soviet : literature and cultural politics under Lenin and Stalin
（The Library of modern Russia）
Bloomsbury Academic, 2022, c2021
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"First published in Great Britain 2021. This paperback edition published in 2022"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-251) and index
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Description
Winner of the BASEES Alexander Nove Prize 2021
Winner of The American Association for Ukrainian Studies 2019-2020 Book Prize
Honorable Mention for the ASEEES Omeljan Pritsak Book Prize in Ukrainian Studies 2022
While most studies of Soviet culture assume a model of diffusion, according to which Soviet republics imitated the artistic trends and innovations born in Moscow, Olena Palko adroitly challenges this centre-periphery perspective. Rather than being a mere imposition from above, Making Ukraine Soviet reveals how the process of cultural sovietisation in Ukraine during the interwar years developed from a synthesis of different - and often conflicting - cultural projects both local and Muscovite in orientation.
Engaging with a wide range of primary and secondary sources, including literary and archival material, Palko grounds her argument in the cases of two celebrated and controversial Ukrainian artists: the poet Pavlo Tychyna and prosaist Mykola Khyl'ovyi. Through this unique biographical lens, Palko's skilled analysis of cultural construction sheds fresh light on the complex process of establishing and consolidating the Soviet regime in Ukraine. In doing so, Palko offers a timely re-assessment of the Russo-Ukrainian conflict and adds nuance to current debates on the relationship between national identity, the arts, and the Soviet state.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Note on Transliteration and Translation
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I. Competing Projects of Ukraine
1. 'Above Kyiv there is a Golden Hum': The National Revolution in Kyiv
2. In Search of 'a blue Savoy': The Bolshevik Revolution in Kharkiv
Part II. Debating Soviet Culture in Ukraine
3. Towards Soviet Literature in Ukrainian
4. Defending Soviet Ukrainian Literature
Part III. Fitting in the Soviet Cannon
5. 'Ukraine or Little Russia': The Battle for Cultural Autonomy in 1926
6. State Appropriation of Literature during the First Five-Year Plan
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
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