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Ukraïnsʹka bìografìstika
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Hyrych Ihor, Kozeletska Kateryna, Hrynevych Taras Svitozar Drahomanov’s stay in German-occupied Kyiv (1941-1943)Section: Biographical Studies of the Ukrainian Emigration Abstract: The purpose of the publication is to familiarize with the epistolary works of S. Drahomanov and B. Martos, to introduce them into scientific circulation as an important source for the study of political, economic, national and cultural processes during the Second World War; to analyze the information contained in the letters about the lives of the mentioned figures and the social conditions in which they had to work. The research methodology is based on the principles of objectivity, historicism, comprehensiveness, integrity and reliance on source material; general scientific methods of analysis and synthesis, deduction and induction, systematization; special-historical methods such as biographical, historical-genetic, criticism of source material and others. The novelty of the work lies in the introduction into scientific circulation of the correspondence of S. Drahomanov and B. Martos, as an important source of information about the lives of these figures and the history of the development of Ukrainian national-political, public, economic and cultural life in 1942-1944. The value of the epistolary works of S. Drahomanov and B. Martos for studying the little known pages of their biographies has been determined. A number of importantfacts from the lives of S. Drahomanov and B. Martos, the activities of a number of important Ukrainian organizations and institutions of that time, and living conditions in Kyiv, Lviv and Prague occupied by the Third Reich have been clarified. Conclusions. During the German occupation of Kyiv in 1941-1943, Svitozar Drahomanov, like the vast majority of Ukrainian intelligentsia, which had freed itself from the oppression of the Bolshevik dictatorship, tried to adapt to the new demands of the German occupier. Various survival strategies were included. At the same time, the new occupier did not completely ban Ukrainian cultural and scientific life. And Svitozar Mykhailovych, to the extent possible, led a fairly active public and cultural life in Kyiv, which he reported on in his letters to Boris Martos. There was a combination of two waves of Ukrainian figures: political emigration of the UNR and the intelligentsia, which only set off on the path of a new political emigration during the Second World War. Svitozar Drahomanov and other new emigrants, who did not want to get into the Russian communist paradise, chose emigration in order to represent the Ukrainian national interest in the world there, which was to be based on the principles of an independent Ukraine. Keywords: Svitozar Drahomanov, Boris Martos, epistolary letters, World War II, German occupation, Soviet regime, cooperative movement. Author(s) citation:
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