The intelligentsia and the authorities of Ukraine in the first half 20s of the twentieth century

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to analyze the processes of evolution of the views of the old intelligentsia concerning the authorities and the working-class and peasants in the early 20s of the 20th century. Special attention is paid to the role of professional unions in establishing business cooperation of the various groups of the old intelligentsia with the Soviet officials of the Bolshevik regime in Ukraine. Relevance. The article analyzes the little-investigated processes of transformation of the worldview attitudes of the old intelligentsia of Ukraine regarding the Soviet regime and its economic and cultural policy, its attitude to the old intelligentsia. The author studies the various aspects of professional unions' activities in establishing business cooperation of the old intelligentsia with the Bolsheviks authorities in Ukraine. Problem statement. Currently Ukraine appropriately marks the 100th anniversary of the events of the Ukrainian Revolution of 1917—1921. That is why the study of diversification of the views of the old intelligentsia regarding the Soviet regime in Ukraine in the early 1920s continues to be relevant. The Bolshevik regime in Ukraine was fated to win over the old intelligentsia. The further fate of this regime depended on this. The research methodology. In this study the author uses culturological principles and methods, which make it possible to examine the complicated issues of the relationships between the authorities and the old intelligentsia in Ukraine in the early 1920s. The author also examines the role of the professional unions of the intelligentsia in establishing business relations with the Soviet and Bolshevik Party authorities that occupied Ukraine at that time. Results. Drawing on principally archival records and printed publications of that time the author identifies relevant to this day issues of the interrelations of the old intelligentsia and the Bolshevik regime in Ukraine, which did their best to earn the sympathy of the majority of the old intelligentsia, because this regime could not exist without the old intelligentsia. The Soviet authorities were able to upgrade the economy and create new culture only in cooperation with the old intelligentsia. Novelty. Using the culturological methodology the author analyses the complicated processes of diversification of the views of the old intelligentsia in the course of unwanted establishment of business relations with the Soviet regime in Ukraine. The paper also describes the role of the professional unions of the intelligentsia in this process. 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 other aspects of theory and history and of Ukrainian culture. They also can be used in the educational process while studying the courses of history of national culture.