ПОЛІТИЗАЦІЯ ДІЯЛЬНОСТІ ТВОРЧОЇ ІНТЕЛІГЕНЦІЇ УКРАЇНИ (1960-ті рр.)

Abstract

The article examines the politicization of the cultural and educational activities of the creative intelligentsia of Ukraine in the 60s of the last century. It is noted that the general atmosphere of the considered era was the awakening of national consciousness in the field of creative intelligence. In a state where terror became a means of state policy, the very fact of the emergence of political dissidence was a phenomenal phenomenon. The regime introduced a whole system of the most ingenious means of neutralizing the opposition: surveillance, various provocations, as well as special psychiatric hospitals, traditional prisons and camps. However, all these means did not justify themselves. State terror only intensified political resistance, as the trials united and crystallized its core, strengthened the beliefs and tasks of Ukrainian dissidents. The dissidents agitated society, caused a conflict of worldviews, which was an outstanding achievement under the conditions of general unanimity. Their views can be accepted or denied, but do not ignore the reaction to the fact of their conscious self-sacrifice. With their position, the dissidents challenged the general mass, which had come to terms with its position, the system, which imposed its rules on every cell of the social organism. Against the background of the All-Union dissident movement, the defining feature of Ukrainian became the emphasis on the position that human rights cannot be fulfilled without ensuring the rights of the nation. Among the representatives of the creative intelligentsia of Ukraine, who have put forward a number of political conditions since the early 1960s, a special place belongs to the representatives of the Donetsk region.