Ukrainian Cultural Figures of the Ukrainian SSR 1920-1940. Victims of Bolshevik Terror: New York, Prolog, 1959. 80 p.

The work of Viktor Petrov, written in the early 1940s, is intended to shed light on the course of repressive measures taken by the Soviet authorities against representatives of the Ukrainian intelligentsia (writers, cultural figures, etc.) in the period before the outbreak of World War II, which culminated in its annihilation during the so-called ‘Yezhovshchyna’ (Great Terror). The author pays special attention to the role of the national factor in the brutality of the Soviet government's oppression of the Ukrainian intelligentsia. He examines in detail the fates of Yevhen Pluzhnyk, Dmytro Falkivskyi, Hryhorii Kosynka, Mykola Khvylovyi, Mykola Zerov, and Mykhailo Drai-Khmara as examples of those lost to repression; examples of destroyed associations and organizations include VAPLYTE, Lanka – Mars, the New Generation, the Neoclassicists' circle, and writers of the “old generation” (up to the 70s of the 19th century), whom the author considers to be the “old generation”. The author conditionally unites them into a pleiad of ‘seventiers’.

Vlada Davidenko

Contents

Preface

Bolshevism and the intelligentsia

The proletariat is called upon to replace the intelligentsia

The scheme to destroy the Ukrainian intelligentsia

On the trials

Yevhen Pluzhnyk

Dmytro Falkivskyi

Hryhorii Kosynka

Mykola Khvylovyi

Liquidation of literary organizations

Vaplite

Lanka – Mars

The ‘New Generation’

Neo-classics

Mykola Zerov

Mykhailo Drai-Khmara

‘Western Ukraine’

Party members

‘Seventies’

Unified

Additions