The Factors of Diversification of Relations Between the Intelligentsia and the Authorities of Ukraine in the First Half of the 1920s

Abstract

Relevance. The article analyses topical issues of improving the working and leisure conditions of the old intelligentsia in the first half of the 1920s by the Bolshevik regime in Ukraine in order to win them over to the side of the Bolsheviks and with the aim of ideological “re-education”. The relevance of the issues is confirmed not only by the fact that they are little-investigated, but also by the need to confirm the idea of using forcible methods and the real destruction of the old intelligentsia.Research methodology. Сulturological principles and methods are the methodological basis of the study. They make it possible to identify the issues of improving the working and leisure conditions of the old intelligentsia in the first half of the 1920s. The author managed to show the diversification of the views of the old intelligentsia concerning their attitude to the Soviet power of the Bolshevik regime in Ukraine. The authorities of the Soviet regime aimed at the ideological “re-education” of the bourgeois intelligentsia on the basis of the principles of Marxism-Leninism.Results. The author has studied a lot of archive information and periodical editions of that time. The paper shows how the Soviet authorities tried to attract the old intelligentsia to their side by improving the material conditions of work and rest and providing advance training. The power structures of the Bolshevik regime forced the old intelligentsia to study their dogmatic ideology and tried to ideologically “re-educate” their representatives.Novelty. Drawing on culturological principles and methods the author analyses the forms of improving the working and leisure conditions of the old Ukrainian intelligentsia, which the Bolshevik regime in Ukraine was forced to promote in order to attract them to their side as well as their gradual ideological “re-education” on Marxism principles.The practical significance. The results of this study can be used for further research of the issues mentioned above as well as in the process of studying the courses of history and theory of Ukrainian culture.