Evolution of Views of the Intelligentsia Regarding the Authorities and Workers’-And-Peasants’ Groups in the Early 1920s

• Main Author: V. M. Sheyko
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Kharkiv State Academy of Culture 2020-02-01
• Series: Культура України
• Subjects: українська культура; стара інтелігенція; еволюція поглядів інтелігенції україни; професійні спілки інтелігенції
• Online Access: http://ku-khsac.in.ua/article/view/205534
• ISSN: 2410-5325; 2522-1140

Relevance. The article analyzes the processes of transformation of the worldview attitudes of the old intelligentsia of Ukraine regarding the Soviet regime and its economic and cultural policy, its attitude to the old intelligentsia. The author studies the role of professional unions of the intelligentsia in establishing business cooperation of the old intelligentsia with the Bolsheviks which exercised their authority over Ukraine at that time. The research methodology. In this study the author uses culturological principles and methods, which make it possible to examine the complicated issues of the relationships between the authorities and the old intelligentsia in Ukraine in the early 1920s. The author also examines the role of the professional unions of the intelligentsia in establishing business relations with the Soviet authorities that occupied Ukraine. Results. Drawing on archival records and printed publications of that time the author identifies relevant to this day issues of the interrelations of the old intelligentsia and the Bolshevik regime, which dominated in Ukraine at that time. The Bolsheviks did their best to earn the sympathy of the majority of the old intelligentsia, because they could upgrade the economy, create new culture only in cooperation with the old intelligentsia. Novelty. Using the culturological methodology the author analyses the complicated processes of diversification of the views of the old intelligentsia in the course of unwanted establishment of business relations with the Soviet regime in Ukraine. The paper describes the role of the professional unions of the intelligentsia in this process. The practical significance. The results of this study can be used for further research of the issues mentioned above as well as in the process of studying other aspects of history and theory of Ukrainian culture. They also can be used in the educational process while studying the courses of history of national culture.