Socio-political and philosophical views of Lesya Ukrainka: Kyiv, Derzhavne vydavnytstvo politychnoіi literatury URSR [State Publishing House of Political Literature of the Ukrainian SSR], 1953, 209 p.

The author seeks to highlight the key aspects that characterise Lesya Ukrainka as a revolutionary thinker. According to the author, patriotism, love for the people and workers of the world, and hatred of the oppressors were the main sources of Lesya Ukrainka's revolutionary attitudes and worldview. These traits led to her firmness and consistency in the struggle against exploitation. The author argues that Lesya Ukrainka's views on aesthetics followed the traditions of revolutionary democrats and were close to Marxist aesthetics. He also argues that Lesya Ukrainka adhered to the principles of dialectics and pre-Marxist materialism. The author concludes that Lesya Ukrainka - on a number of issues - went beyond the revolutionary democratic ideology and stood on the positions of revolutionary Marxism.

CONTENTS

Preface

Chapter I. Conditions of formation of Lesya Ukrainka's worldview

Chapter II. Socio-political views of Lesya Ukrainka

Lesya Ukrainka's fiery patriotism

Lesya Ukrainka's views on class struggle, revolution and the role of the masses in historical development

Lesya Ukrainka – a fighter for the friendship of peoples, against the ideology of bourgeois nationalism

The socialist orientation of Lesya Ukrainka's worldview and work

Chapter III. Philosophical and aesthetic views of Lesya Ukrainka

Aesthetic views of Lesya Ukrainka

Philosophical views of Lesya Ukrainka

Lesya Ukrainka's atheism

Lesya Ukrainka's ethical conception

Section IV. Historical significance of Lesya Ukrainka's work and public political activity