Soviet ukrainization as an important stage language development of Ukraine

Abstract

The presented article raises the problem of the development of an institutional thing for any nation, namely, the problem of language. Given the centuries-old stateless life of the Ukrainian nation and the extremely unfavorable conditions for the development of its language, the latter needed not so much genesis as a statement of its existence and the realization of the natural right to preserve and enrich. Participants in this important rescue work were figures of national and cultural revival of Ukraine in the late XVIII — early XX centuries, the Ukrainian national democratic revolution and the struggle for the preservation of Ukrainian statehood 1917—1921, frontists of Western Ukraine in 1920—1930, who fought desperately against the forcible Polonization, Romanianization, and Magyarization of Ukrainians in the interwar period, representatives of the Sixties and dissident movements in the USSR, who cherished their native language at the time of the establishment of the Russian language in the USSR as a language of interethnic communication. The apotheosis of the struggle of the latter was the proclamation of the state status of the Ukrainian language in October 1989. Based on the press of the USSR—USSR, the author argues that a significant contribution to the preservation and development of the Ukrainian language was made by the Bolshevik political campaign. The policy of indigenization proclaimed in 1923 in the conditions of Ukraine turned into a large-scale and long-term Ukrainization. The course and achievements of the latter were clearly reflected in the pages of Ukrainian Soviet periodicals (scientific, socio-political, literary and artistic, etc.). At the same time, the author testifies not only to the scale but also to the prolongation of the campaign until the early 1960s and 1970s, which gives grounds to reject the now widespread thesis that the tragic suicide of Ukrainian communist Mykola Skrypnyk in 1933 put an end to implementation. campaign of Ukrainization in the USSR—USSR.