Chervony Shliach — political and literary-scientific monthly that was founded in 1923, Kharkiv

Kharkiv

Kharkiv or Kharkov is the second-largest city in Ukraine.The city was founded in 1654 and was a major centre of Ukrainian culture in the Russian Empire. Kharkiv became the first city in Ukraine where the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic was proclaimed in December 1917 and Soviet government was...

. It continued to be published until February 1936.

History

The first directors of the magazine were prominent Ukrainian statesmen, Hryhoriy Hrynko, who was replaced, due to his transfer to Moscow sometime in mid 1923, by O. Shumsky. Shumsky was fired from the position as well as the position of the People's Commissar of Education in 1926 for the nationalistic deviation.

For a short period of time the position of director were appointed to Mykhailo Yalovy

Mykhailo Yalovy

Mykhailo Yalovy was a Ukrainian communist poet-futurist, prosaic, drama writer.-Yearly years and the Revolution:Yalovy was born in a family of volost scribe...

 and Mykola Khvylovy

Mykola Khvylovy

Mykola Khvylovy was a Ukrainian writer and poet of the early Communist era Ukrainian Renaissance .Born as Mykola Fitilyov in Trostyanets, Kharkov Governorate to a Russian laborer father and Ukrainian schoolteacher mother, Khvylovy joined the Communist Party in 1919. In the same year he became the...

 who were eventually displaced for nationalistic deviations. In 1927 the magazine was headed by Volodymyr Zatonsky

Volodymyr Zatonsky

Volodymyr Zatonsky was a Soviet politician, Communist Party activist, member of the Ukrainian SSR Academy of Sciences ....

.

The magazine published the work of major Ukrainian writers and journalists such as Ivan Kulik

Ivan Kulik

Ivan Yulianovych Kulik was Jewish-Ukrainian poet, writer, translator, diplomat and Communist Party activist, . He also wrote under names "R. Rolinato" and "Vasyl Rolenko".-Biography:...

, Pavlo Tychyna

Pavlo Tychyna

Pavlo Tychyna was a major Ukrainian poet, interpreter, publicist, public activist, academician, and statesman.-Life:Born in Pisky in 1891, he was baptized on January 27 that mistakenly was considered his birth date until recently. His father, Hryhoriy Timofiyovych Tychyna, was a village deacon and...

, Pavlo Khrystiuk

Pavlo Khrystiuk

Pavlo Khrystiuk was a Ukrainian cooperator, historian, journalist, political activist, and statesman.- Biography :...

, Mykola Skrypnyk

Mykola Skrypnyk

Mykola Oleksiyovych Skrypnyk was a Ukrainian Bolshevik leader who was a proponent of the Ukrainian Republic's independence, and led the cultural Ukrainization effort in Soviet Ukraine. When the policy was reversed and he was removed from his position, he committed suicide rather than be forced to...

, V.Yurynets, and many others.

During 1920s the magazine published works representative of all kinds of political orientations and fields of literature, art, journalism, history, economy, etc. The magazine reflected on its pages both the weak and strong in the processes of Ukrainian cultural Renaissance of the time.

The closing down of the magazine Chervony Shliakh was one of the last acts for the liquidation of a pluralistic cultural understanding. It was succeeded by the Literary journal which became a voice for socialist realism

Socialist realism

Socialist realism is a style of realistic art which was developed in the Soviet Union and became a dominant style in other communist countries. Socialist realism is a teleologically-oriented style having its purpose the furtherance of the goals of socialism and communism...

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