Бонь, Олександр Іванович (2024) Borys Antonenko-Davydovych under surveilance of Soviet punitive bodies in the 1920s Вісник Маріупольского державного університету (38). pp. 7-18. ISSN 2518-1521
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Abstract
The subject of the article is to examine the reasons, methods and results of the communist regime control over the literary and artistic environment of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (Ukrainian SSR) in 1920 describing the case of writer Borys AntonenkoDavydovych: surveillance of punitive bodies as one of the mechanisms of this process, in particular. On the basis of the materials of the State Political Administration, memoirs and other sources, the process of surveillance of B. Antonenko-Davydovych is partially reconstructed, and the main directions of surveillance are identified. Ukrainian writer B. Antonenko-Davydovych, like most famous writers of the 1920s, was under the supervision of the SPA, which collected information on him. However, the file against the writer was destroyed at the end of the USSR's existence, and therefore the possibilities for reconstructing the surveillance process are limited. Thus, other similar documents of the Soviet punitive authorities, such as the form file on H. Kosynka, documents from criminal cases that were started in 1930 against the literary and artistic intelligentsia of Ukraine, allow us to determine the main circle of people, events, and results of this surveillance. The case of the "Fugitives" is of particular importance, as it contains information on a group of writers who, according to the punitive authorities, were led by B. Antonenko-Davydovych and planned to leave Ukraine in early 1930 to avoid repression. Similarly, the context of the events is shown in the reports of the secret department of the SPA of the Ukrainian SSR of 1927-1929, which actually described and summarized the results of surveillance. To verify such complex sources as the documents of the Soviet secret services, ego-documents from the literary and student environment of the time - Dokiya Humenna, Hryhorii Kostiuk, and Oleksa Varava - were also used. From these sources it becomes clear that B. Antonenko-Davydovych was under surveillance in connection with his participation in the work of the provincial committee of the Ukrainian Communist Party (UCP), his activity in the student community in Kyiv, his participation in the literary organisations Mars and Lanka, and his work in the AllUkrainian Film and Photo Department (AUFPD). The article shows how the materials of the SPA and NKVD of 1930, criminal cases and files depict the events of 1920 and confirm mass surveillance of the literary and artistic environment in the Ukrainian SSR. This surveillance provided dat for the punitive authorities to persecute and repress the writer in 1930.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Borys Antonenko-Davydovych; literary and artistic intelligentsia; surveillance; writers; State Political Administration (SPA); controlled revival |
Subjects: | Статті у базах даних > Index Copernicus Статті у періодичних виданнях > Фахові (входять до переліку фахових, затверджений МОН) |
Divisions: | Факультет суспільно-гуманітарних наук > Кафедра історії України |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email kiu.fshn@kubg.edu.ua |
Date Deposited: | 20 Nov 2024 11:24 |
Last Modified: | 20 Nov 2024 11:24 |
URI: | https://elibrary.kubg.edu.ua/id/eprint/50280 |
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