THE NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF UKRAINE IN SYMON PETLURA’S PUBLICIST LEGACY OF 1902 – 1917
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The purpose of the research is to analyze Symon Petliura’s journalistic heritage of 1902 – 19017, to explore his views concerning the national issue, in particular, to identify the key factors in the Ukrainians’ national revival, who were in Petliura’s field of view during his socio-political worldview formation. The Methodology of the Research is based on the principles of historicism, objectivity, comprehensiveness and integrity, systematicity, as well as the use of numerous methods – analysis and synthesis, historical comparative, historical typological, problem chronological. The scientific novelty consists in S. Petliura’s views comprehensive coverage concerning the role of education, science, culture, journalism, book publishing in the Ukrainians national development process, determining S. Petliura’s worldview religious component of the Ukrainian Movement at the beginning of the XXth century, S. Petliura’s social democratic and national components’ worldview paradigm correlation at the stage of his personality formation. The Conclusions. S. Petliura’s creative heritage demonstrates the multi-vector nature of his public interests even before the Ukrainian national revolution breakout in 1917 – 1921. At the same time, the national issues dominated on the pages of S. Petliura’s early publications. According to the activist, the Ukrainian school of science, literature, theater, journalism, and book publishing should have promoted the Ukrainians national self-identification development, awareness of the need to achieve the Ukrainian autonomy among the Ukrainians broad circles, and the workers and peasants class struggle. According to S. Petliura, the humanitarian component of the social process had to be socially determined, meet the Ukrainian people needs concerning the national revival and the socialist ideals establishment. S. Petliura considered the Ukrainian people’s further national development through the prism of social-democratic postulates. S. Petliura’s worldview of that period was also characterized by a religious component, which was not characteristic of the Ukrainian socialists at the beginning of the XXth century.
Key words: Symon Petliura, social democracy, Ukrainian school, national development, autonomy, religious themes.
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