Ivan Dziuba
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Ivan Dziuba (born July 26 1931, Mykolaivka
Mykolaivka
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) is a Ukrainian
Ukraine
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 literary critic, social activist, dissident
Soviet dissidents
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, Hero of Ukraine
Hero of Ukraine
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, academic of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, the second Minister of Culture
Minister of culture
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 of Ukraine (1992—1994), Head of the Committe for Shevchenko National Prize
Shevchenko National Prize
Shevchenko National Prize , the highest award given for works of art and literature in Ukraine. It is named after the Spiritual leader of Ukrainian national revival Taras Shevchenko.-History:...

 (1999–2001).

Co-Chief of Editorial Board of the Encyclopaedia of Modern Ukraine.

Chief editor of the magazine The Contemporary (Сучасність) in the 1990s, a member of the editorial boards of scientific magazines "Київська старовина", "Слово і час", "Євроатлантика" and others.

Biography

Born in a peasant
Peasant
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 family.

In 1932 Ivan's family, fleeing from the famine
Holodomor
The Holodomor was a man-made famine in the Ukrainian SSR between 1932 and 1933. During the famine, which is also known as the "terror-famine in Ukraine" and "famine-genocide in Ukraine", millions of Ukrainians died of starvation in a peacetime catastrophe unprecedented in the history of...

, moved from the home village to the nearby worker village Novotroyits'ke, but not for long. Later, permanently - in Olenevski Careers (now Dokuchaevsk), where Dziuba finished secondary school № 1.

He graduated from Donetsk Pedagogical Institute
Donetsk National University
Donetsk National University is the leading higher educational institution in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. The University's history starts in 1937 from the moment of creation of a pedagogical institute in Donetsk . In 1965, the Institute was transformed into Donetsk State University...

, conducted the graduate studies in the Shevchenko Institute of Literature.

Became printed in 1959.

In the 1970s
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, was subjected to harassment for the views expressed in some publications.

The work Internationalism or Russification?
Internationalism or Russification?
Internationalism or Russification? is a book by Ukrainian writer and social activist Ivan Dziuba, written in September-December 1965.-History of writing:...

(London, 1968 "Motherland" magazine (ukr.
Ukrainian language
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 "Вітчизна"), 1990, № 5-7) - about the problems threatening national relations in socialist society. Special Commission of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine has called the work "lampoons on the Soviet reality, the national policy of the CPSU and the practice of communist construction in the USSR." Authorities accused Dziuba in undermining Soviet friendship of peoples, fueling hatred between the Ukrainian and Russian peoples.

Laureate of the Shevchenko Prize, O. Biletsky Prize, Antonovich Fund International Prize, Volodymyr Vernadsky Prize.

Sources

  • Шевченківські лауреати. 1962—2001: Енциклопедичний довідник. — К., 2001. — С. 136—138.
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