T. H. Shevchenko and the Russian revolutionary democrats of the 50-60s of the XIX century: Kyiv, Vydavnytstvo Akademii nauk Ukrainskoi RSR [Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR], 1953, 151 p.

The purpose of the book is to prove the commonality of the path of the Ukrainian and Russian peoples by attempting to compare the ideas and intentions of Russian anti-monarchist figures and theorists (in particular, Alexander Radishchev, the Decembrists and Russian revolutionary democrats) with the socio-political views of Taras Shevchenko. The author considers him a supporter of ‘true revolutionary processes’ and contrasts him with his contemporaries. In the author's opinion, this comparison is appropriate because it is based on the assumption of 1) the primacy of socio-economic conditions in relation to ideological and political processes; 2) the commonality of these conditions in the territory of Ukraine and Russia at that time. This understanding leads to the author's conclusion about the common struggle of Shevchenko and Russian revolutionary democrats against serfdom and autocracy, and thus about the common destiny of the two peoples.

CONTENTS

Introduction

Section I. Historical conditions and ideological preconditions for the emergence and development of revolutionary-democratic ideology

Section II. Theoretical foundations of the socio-political programme of revolutionary democrats

Section III. Revolutionary democrats in the struggle against bourgeois liberalism, nationalism and cosmopolitanism

Section IV. The historical significance of revolutionary-democratic ideology