CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2023
| Author | Довгань Світлана |
|---|---|
| Title | Recentering the Periphery: Spatial Dimensions of the Ukrainian Sixtiers Movement |
| Summary | This thesis seeks to bridge together two intersecting aspects of the Sixtiers movement in Soviet Ukraine, namely cultural activism in the public sphere and the intellectual work on rethinking Ukrainianness and Ukrainian space in the context of the relative intellectual autonomy and opportunities for national self-expression opened by the Thaw. It does so by employing the lens of spatiality, lived, experienced, and imagined by the young intelligentsia, on the one hand, and adopting perspective "from below" on the other hand. The work argues that the Sixtiers attempted to reconceptualize the Ukrainian culture and reimagine the unified Ukrainian space drawing on the official discourse and enriching them with the new meanings. Nevertheless, the Soviet authorities perceived a threat emanating from this young intelligentsia. Finally, the Sixtiers were blocked out from the public space they aimed to reform. |
| Supervisor | Shaw, Charles; Sereda, Ostap |
| Department | History MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2023/dovhan_svitlana.pdf |
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