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Making Soviet Ukraine Ukrainian: The Debate on Ukrainian Statehood in the Journal Suchasnist’ (1961–1971)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 June 2019

Simone Attilio Bellezza
Simone Attilio Bellezza*
Affiliation:
Department of Social Sciences, University of Naples “Federico II,” Naples, Italy
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*Corresponding author. Email: sabellezza@gmail.com, simoneattilio.bellezza@unina.it
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Abstract

This article analyzes the debate on Ukrainian statehood going on in the 1960s in Suchasnist’, the most intellectually prestigious journal among Ukrainian emigrants in the West. These intellectuals and political activists interpreted the renaissance of Ukrainian national culture in the 1960s (the so-called shistdesiatnytstvo) in various ways and proposed different political strategies to influence their original homeland and its future political and cultural developments. In the Ukrainian diaspora, two opposing factions emerged: the first, despite condemning Soviet imperialism, favorably evaluated the birth of a movement for the defense of human rights in Soviet Ukraine and was happy to exploit the rapprochement between the USSR and USA to finally have an opportunity to make contact with the motherland. The other did not consider the Ukrainian SSR as a real example of a Ukrainian state and acknowledged its existence only for tactical reasons; this faction thought that contact should be avoided and that the Soviets should be offered no opportunity to address the Western public. Eventually, at the beginning of the 1970s, even those who had opposed collaboration with any subject from Soviet Ukraine decided to embrace the cause of human rights and join the struggle led by the Ukrainian dissent.

Keywords

UkrainestatehooddiasporadissentCold Warhuman rights
Type
Special Issue on Ukrainian Statehood
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Nationalities Papers , Volume 47 , Issue 3 , May 2019 , pp. 379 - 393
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© Association for the Study of Nationalities 2019 

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