Shot Renaissance
Shot Renaissance - a literary and artistic generation from the 1920's and early 1930's in Ukraine, which produced highly productive works in the field of literature, painting, music, theater and destroyed by the totalitarian regime of Stalin.
The term "Shot Renaissance" was first proposed by Diaspora literary critic Yuriy Lavrinenko, using it as the title of a collection of the best texts of poetry and prose of the 1920s and 1930s. During this decade (1921-1931), Ukrainian culture managed to compensate for a three hundred year lag, and even outweigh the influence of the homeland other cultures, Russian in particular (by October 1, 1925 there were 5,000 writers in Ukraine).
The main components of the modern elite, its view was revolt, autonomy of thought and sincere faith in their own ideals. Most of these were intellectuals who relied on the personality, not on the mass.
The totalitarian regime felt its defeat and began to operate by forbidden methods: repression, default, crushing criticism, arrests, executions. The beginning of the massive destruction of the Ukrainian intelligence is May 1933, when the arrest of Mikhail Yalovoy and suicide of Mykola Khvylyovyi were held on the 12th to 13th of the year.
The culmination of the Soviet repressive regime was November 3, 1937. Then, in honor of the 20th anniversary of the Great October, Les Kurbas, M. Kulish, M. Yavorsky, V. Chekhovsky, V. Podmogylny, P. Filippovich, V. Polischuk, G. Epik, and others were shot dead in the Solovetsky special purpose camp. M. Irchan, M. Voronyi, M. Kozorys, O. Slisarenko, M. Yalovy and others. In general, in one day, according to the decision of the non-judicial bodies, over 100 people were executed by representatives of the Ukrainian intelligence - the color of the Ukrainian nation.
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- "Resurrection of the Shattered Renaissance" is a cycle of author's plots devoted to the life and work of famous art figures who, despite the brutal repression of the authorities, did everything to preserve the achievements of Ukrainian literature.
- Shattered Renaissance – is an unknown story of writers from declassified archives.
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