Здобутки і втрати української еміграційної еліти: оцінка в часі (ЧСР, 1918–1939 рр.).

Abstract

The activity of the Ukrainian emigration center in the interwar Czechoslovakia is a bright phenomenon of Ukrainian science and culture. Taken away from the homeland and deprived of elemental means of labor (libraries, archives, collections, own materials), emigration was able not only to create a meaningful and attractive image of Ukrainians, but also to expose its scientific and cultural achievements to the phenomenon of a world-class level. However, as you know, every barrel of honey will find its own of tar. In our case, the spoon of tar will be the issue of emigration scientific and cultural losses. Which of them was more: humanitarian or technical? In what way and, most importantly, under what conditions were knowledge and achievements lost? And, finally, why are the ghosts of Olshansky, the Mateyskiy, Malvazinsky cemeteries of Prague awaiting the dumb reproach to us, and with them Melnikovsky, Podеbrady, Liberecky, Teresino and German-Yablonsky burials, on which the Ukrainian intellectuals, whom we know a lot or those we do not know about anything? An attempt to answer these questions is the purpose of our intelligence. Ukrainian political emigration in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic was, in fact, an intellectual labor emigration that created the foundation for an independent Ukrainian state. She (emigration) performed at least two powerful tasks: he created the prerequisites for the independence of Ukraine and at the same time created the intellectual, spiritual and cultural product of world civilization. For this purpose, a system of structural unions was designed, competently and thoughtfully created, which can be classified into two types: 1) national-political and social-public organizations; 2) scientific and educational, academic, youth, religious, cultural, publishing and information organizations. In turn, the use of such creative intelligence of individual talented individuals, for example, we can trace the emergence of an emigration phenomenon, allows us to talk about a qualitatively new human resource that arose on the basis of the interpenetration and interaction of two (or several) cultures. Unfortunately, due to commerce, indifference to the lack of patriotism and just human oblivion, the creation of interwar emigration in the Czechoslovakia, the intellectual product is either not used in full or is completely ignored.