Kulturní politika po 20. sjezdu Komunistické strany SSSR: reflexe v sovětské Ukrajině

• Authors: Radomyr Mokryk

Title variants

EN

Cultural policy after the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union: reflexion in Soviet Ukraine

RU

Культурная политика после XX съезда Коммунистической партии СССР: рефлексия в советской Украине

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The article covers the main attributes of cultural policy in Soviet Ukraine after the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1956. It analyses the official literary concept of the socialist realism, focusing on the internationalist principle in wider political context. The study presents the gradual formation of an alternative discourse in the Soviet culture, represented in Soviet Ukraine by works of the younger generation of so-called “Generation of the sixties”. The two discourses interlinked under the specific conditions of the Khrushchev Thaw gave birth to a curious phenomenon of a hybrid culture of National Communism. The article defines the main phases of the development of the alternative discourse of Soviet culture in Ukraine during the Thaw and the gradual development of the „Generation of the sixties“ from Soviet class identity towards a national one that later took form of anti-Soviet and anti-Imperial opposition.

Keywords

EN

the 20th century; the Khrushchev Thaw; socialist realism; dissent; colonialism; Soviet identity

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovanský přehled: historická revue pro dějiny střední, východní a jihovýchodní Evropy (Slavonic Review: Review for Central, Eastern and Southeastern European history)
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 106
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 501-524
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Radomyr Mokryk

• Slovanský přehled, redakce, Historický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i., Prosecká 76, 190 00 Praha 9, Czech Republic