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1965–1966 Ukrainian Purge
From August 1965 to May 1966, the government of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic orchestrated a mass arrest of intellectuals associated with the counter-culture Sixtier movement. Occurring simultaneously with the Sinyavsky–Daniel trial, the purge occurred without the knowledge of western media until the publication of journalist Viacheslav Chornovil's petition (popularly known as ''The Chornovil Papers''). An estimated 190–200 people were arrested during the purge. Background The Khrushchev Thaw led to the emergence of new expressions of culture in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. Following filmmaker Alexander Dovzhenko's 1955 call for the "expansion of the creative boundaries of socialist realism", young Ukrainian intellectuals began creating art and artistic criticism that openly defied socialist realist principles in what later became known as the Sixtier movement. The Sixtiers played an important role in Ukraine's cultural revival following the Stalin er ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sixtiers
The Sixtiers (, ; "people of the 60s") were а new generation of young intellectuals who reawakened literature and a sense of Ukrainian nationalism within the Soviet intelligentsia. The Sixtiers entered the cultural and political life in Ukraine during the USSR era of late 1950s and 1960s and expressed elements of humanism, embracing Western literature, while stressing universal socialism by returning to values of Leninsism. The Sixtiers arose after the Khrushchev Thaw. Born in Ukraine between 1925 and 1945, their worldviews were formed by a series of tragedies and persecutions including the Holodomor, Stalin's Purges and World War II during childhood. This was followed by political and historical events while many were attending University. The Sixtiers are often seen as a "group of friends" who had a reawakening of Ukrainian nationalism. They emerged after a period of russification during Stalin and used Khrushchchev's thaw to explore ideals of nationalism and universal social ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ukrainian Diaspora
The Ukrainian diaspora comprises Ukrainians and their descendants who live outside Ukraine around the world, especially those who maintain some kind of connection to the land of their ancestors and maintain their feeling of Ukrainian national identity within their own local community. The Ukrainian diaspora is found throughout numerous regions worldwide including other post-Soviet states as well as in Ukrainian Canadians, Canada and other countries such as Ukrainians in Poland, Poland, Ukrainian Americans, the United States, the UK and Brazil. Distribution The Ukrainian diaspora is found throughout numerous countries worldwide. It is particularly concentrated in other post-Soviet states (Belarus, Kazakhstan, Moldova, and Russia), Central Europe (the Czech Republic, Germany, and Poland), North America (Canada and the United States), and South America (Argentina and Brazil). History 1608 to 1880 After the loss suffered by the Cossack-Swedish Alliance under Ivan Mazepa in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Krasne Railway Station
Krasne is a railway station in Krasne, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine. The station was first opened in 1869 as part of the Karl Ludwig Railway. A branch from Krasne was later extended into the Russian Empire in 1871. The station was attacked by German forces in 1941 during World War II. It was also reportedly attacked during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. History The railway station at Krasne was opened in as part of the LvivKrasneBrody line of the Karl Ludwig Railway. A branch from Krasne to Ternopil was completed in 1870. This branch was extended further east in 1871 to Pidvolochysk and then to Volochysk in the Russian Empire. In 1892, ownership of the Karl Ludwig Railway was transferred to the Austrian government. In 1941, during World War II, the station came under attack by German forces. The railway section from Lviv through Krasne to Zdolbuniv was electrified at some point during the 1960s and 1970s. In 1994, the section between Krasne and Zol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Odesa
Odesa, also spelled Odessa, is the third most populous List of cities in Ukraine, city and List of hromadas of Ukraine, municipality in Ukraine and a major seaport and transport hub located in the south-west of the country, on the northwestern shore of the Black Sea. The city is also the administrative centre of the Odesa Raion and Odesa Oblast, as well as a multiethnic cultural centre. As of January 2021, Odesa's population was approximately On 25 January 2023, its Historic Centre of Odesa, historic city centre was declared a World Heritage Site and added to the List of World Heritage in Danger by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee in recognition of its multiculturality and 19th-century urban planning. The declaration was made in response to the Odesa strikes (2022–present), bombing of Odesa during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which has damaged or destroyed buildings across the city. In classical antiquity a large Greek settlement existed at its location no later than t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valentyn Moroz
Valentyn Yakovych Moroz (Ukrainian: Валенти́н Я́кович Моро́з; 15 April 1936 – 16 April 2019) was a Ukrainian writer and political prisoner. His resistance to persecution by the communist authorities made him a popular hero, particularly with the Ukrainian diaspora in Canada, but after he was expelled from the USSR, his militant nationalism, and his private life, made him a controversial figure. Early life Moroz was born into a peasant family in the Volyn region of Ukraine. He won a place to study history at Lviv University, but obtained poor grades because he failed to give satisfactory answers when tested on the history of the USSR. After graduation, he worked as a teacher in a rural school, then at the Ivano-Frankivsk Teacher Training Institute. First Arrest On 1 September 1965, Moroz was arrested after giving a talk at the pedagogical institute in which he argued that Ukraine should be recognised as a nation state, with the same status as Poland or C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ihor Gereta
Ihor Petrovych Gereta (, 25 September 1938, Skomorokhy, Ternopil Raion, Ternopil Oblast, Skomorokhy, Ternopil Oblast – 5 June 2002, Ternopil) was a Ukrainian archaeologist, public and political figure, and art historian. Head of the Ternopil branch of the Shevchenko Scientific Society (1996). Additionally, he was a member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine (2002).Ґерета Ігор Петрович / В. А. Лавренюк // Енциклопедія Сучасної України [Електронний ресурс] / Редкол. : І. М. Дзюба, А. І. Жуковський, М. Г. Железняк [та ін.] ; НАН України, НТШ. – К. : Інститут енциклопедичних досліджень НАН України, 2007. Biography I ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mykhailo Kosiv
Mykhailo Vasyliovych Kosiv (; born 28 December 1934) is a Ukrainian journalist, Soviet dissident, and politician who served as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from 1990 to 2006 and from 2007 to 2012. Previously, he was a journalist for '' The Ukrainian Herald'', an independent newspaper in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. Early life and dissident activities Mykhailo Vasyliovych Kosiv was born to peasants Vasyl Stepanovych and Yulia Mykolaivna Kosiv on 28 December 1934 in the village of Olchówka, in the southern Stanisławów Voivodeship of the Second Polish Republic. Today, the village is known as Vilkhivka, and it is located in Ukraine's western Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast. He studied philology at the University of Lviv from 1955 to 1960, and conducted post-graduate studies at the university's history of the Ukrainian language department. His candidate of sciences thesis, "Science, journalism and fiction in the creative tradition of I. Franko", was sent to rectors, but he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mykhaylo Osadchy
Mykhaylo Osadchy (; March 22, 1936, in Kurmany, Nedryhailiv Raion, Sumy Oblast, UkSSR – July 5, 1994, in Lviv, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine) was a Ukrainian journalist, poet, writer, and dissident. Mykhaylo Osadchy graduated from Lviv University in 1958. He taught there from 1960 to 1965. He was arrested in 1965, spent 8 months waiting for a court decision and was finally sentenced to two years' imprisonment in 1966. He was tried together with Mykhailo Horyn, Horyn's brother Bohdan Horyn, and M. Zvarychevska. Osadchy was arrested for the second time January 1972. That September he was sentenced to seven years of labour camp and three years of exile. He was able to return to teaching at Lviv University in 1990. In 1992, Osadchy became a member of the Writer's Union of Ukraine The National Writers' Union of Ukraine () (''НСПУ'') is a voluntary social-creative association of professional writers, poets, prose writers, playwrights, critics, and translators. History The Nati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bohdan Horyn
Bohdan Horyn (; born in Stryi Raion, Kniselo, Lwów Voivodeship) is a Ukraine, Ukrainian human rights activist and Soviet dissident, dissident. He was a People's Deputy of the first and second convocations of the Verkhovna Rada from May 15, 1990, to May 12, 1998. His older brother is Mykhailo Horyn (1930-2013), also was a Ukraine, Ukrainian human rights activist and Soviet dissident. Biography Bohdan Horyn was born on February 10, 1936, in the village of Kniselo, now Stryi Raion, Lviv Oblast. He graduated from University of Lviv, Ivan Franko Lviv State University, Faculty of Philology in 1959. He became a philologist and a teacher of Ukrainian language and literature. In 1988 he was one of the founders of the Ukrainian Helsinki Union. In 1990—1997 he was a member of the Ukrainian Republican Party Board and Council. From 1994 to 1996 he was the director of the Institute for Diaspora Studies. In 2019 he won the Shevchenko National Prize in the category "Journalism". Ref ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
