An Unlikely National Revival: Soviet Higher Learning and the Ukrainian “Sixtiers,” 1953–65

Tromly, Benjamin

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9434.2009.00541.x

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“…Humanities meant adopting modern Ukrainian high culture or becoming cultured and conscientiously Ukrainian -a point made by Benjamin Tromly in his excellent article on the Ukrainian sixtiers (Tromly 2009). What Zhylenko's diaries make eminently clear, however, is that the discovery of new books, music, films, and art gradually distanced her from Soviet official culture.…”

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“…Moreover, most of the sixtiers, with the notable exception of AlIa Horska, were first-generation college students eager to become cultured: "We threw ourselves on (nakynulysia) culture zealously and indiscriminately, for the choosy ones risked remaining hungry" (Zhylenko 2011, 124-125). For this generation, however, an education in the Arts and Humanities meant adopting modem Ukrainian high culture or becoming cultured and conscientiously Ukrainian -a point made by Benjamin Tromly in his excellent article on the Ukrainian sixtiers (Tromly 2009). What Zhylenko's diaries make eminently clear, however, is that the discovery of new books, music, films, and art gradually distanced her from Soviet official culture.…”

Section: The Education Of a Sixtiermentioning

confidence: 99%

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The early 1960s as a cultural space: a microhistory of Ukraine's generation of cultural rebels

Yekelchyk

2015

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This article analyzes the early stage of the Ukrainian “sixtiers” movement as a semi-autonomous space of cultural expression that was tolerated by the authorities and defined, developed, and inhabited by young Ukrainian intellectuals. In contrast to present-day Ukrainian representations of the sixtiers as a force acting in opposition to the Soviet regime, the spatial angle employed here reveals an ambiguous relationship with official institutions. The Ukrainian Komsomol organization in particular appears to be both a controlling and an enabling agent that, together with the Writers' Union, provided meeting venues for the sixtiers until the mid-1960s. This complex symbiotic relationship continued even after some creative youth pioneered the first attempts to claim public space for cultural events without the authorities' permission. The cultural terrain inhabited by young Ukrainian intellectuals was not fully separate from mainstream Soviet Ukrainian culture or in opposition to it, although their vibrant cultural space also reached into a world of non-conformist culture unregulated by the state. A series of government crackdowns beginning in the mid-1960s dramatically shrank this open, ambivalent space of semi-free cultural expression, imposing firm boundaries and forcing intellectuals to make political choices.

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confidence: 97%

Section: The Education Of a Sixtiermentioning

confidence: 99%