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Zusatztext Olena Palko ably charts the emergence of a space called Soviet Ukraine through an engaging and carefully researched narrative. In her telling, Ukrainian writers crafted an emergent national culture, but readers ultimately defined its parameters. Informationen zum Autor Olena Palko is Assistant Professor of History at University of Basel, Switzerland.An examination of Russian-Ukraine relations, and the subsequent cultural sovietisation of Ukraine, in the interwar years. Zusammenfassung Winner of the BASEES Alexander Nove Prize 2021 Winner of The American Association for Ukrainian Studies 2019-2020 Book Prize Honorable Mention for the ASEEES Omeljan Pritsak Book Prize in Ukrainian Studies 2022 While most studies of Soviet culture assume a model of diffusion, according to which Soviet republics imitated the artistic trends and innovations born in Moscow, Olena Palko adroitly challenges this centre-periphery perspective. Rather than being a mere imposition from above, Making Ukraine Soviet reveals how the process of cultural sovietisation in Ukraine during the interwar years developed from a synthesis of different – and often conflicting – cultural projects both local and Muscovite in orientation. Engaging with a wide range of primary and secondary sources, including literary and archival material, Palko grounds her argument in the cases of two celebrated and controversial Ukrainian artists: the poet Pavlo Tychyna and prosaist Mykola Khyl’ovyi. Through this unique biographical lens, Palko's skilled analysis of cultural construction sheds fresh light on the complex process of establishing and consolidating the Soviet regime in Ukraine. In doing so, Palko offers a timely re-assessment of the Russo-Ukrainian conflict and adds nuance to current debates on the relationship between national identity, the arts, and the Soviet state. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsNote on Transliteration and TranslationList of AbbreviationsIntroduction Part I. Competing Projects of Ukraine 1. ‘Above Kyiv there is a Golden Hum’: The National Revolution in Kyiv2. In Search of ‘a blue Savoy’: The Bolshevik Revolution in Kharkiv Part II. Debating Soviet Culture in Ukraine 3. Towards Soviet Literature in Ukrainian4. Defending Soviet Ukrainian Literature Part III. Fitting in the Soviet Cannon 5. ‘Ukraine or Little Russia’: The Battle for Cultural Autonomy in 19266. State Appropriation of Literature during the First Five-Year PlanEpilogueBibliographyIndex...
