VAPLITE
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Vilna Akademia Proletarskoi LITEratury (ВАПЛІТЕ) was a literary union in Ukraine. It was established in Kharkiv and existed from January, 1926 to January 28, 1928.
Accepting the official requirements of the Communist Party
, in literary policy VAPLITE has taken an independent position and was standing on the grounds of creation the new Ukrainian literature by quilified artists who put in front of them the demand of improvement and mastering the best achievements of western European culture. The virtual leader of the union was Mykola Khvylovy
; the president were Mykhailo Yalovy
, later - Mykola Kulish
; and the secretary was Arkadiy Liubchenko.
In the organization actively worked, the above mentioned, Mykola Khvylovy
, Mykhailo Yalovy
, Oles Dosvitny, Mykola Kulish
, Hryhorii Epik
, Pavlo Tychyna
, Ivan Senchenko, Oleksa Slisarenko, Petro Panch, Mykola Bazhan
, Yuriy Yanovskyi, Yuriy Smolych, Ivan Dniprovsky, Oleksandr Kopylenko etc.
Prior to the organization of the association the major literary associations were the Union of Proletarian Writers Hart and the Union of Peasant Writers Pluh. Those organizations were mostly culturally enlightening which in actuality distracted them from their literary artistic goals.
In 1927 VAPLITE was issuing its magazine "VAPLITE".
The views of Mykola Khvylovy
led to criticism from the Party and government personnel of the Ukrainian SSR
. Especially acute attacks suffered his work, "Waldshnepi". Due to constant persecutions VAPLITE was forced to self-dissolve in 1928. The members of VAPLITE continued their literary activity in the literary almanac
"Literary Fair" (1928–29) and the organization "Politfront". The members of VAPLITE became one of the first victims of Stalin regime's repressions.
Accepting the official requirements of the Communist Party
Communist party
A political party described as a Communist party includes those that advocate the application of the social principles of communism through a communist form of government...
, in literary policy VAPLITE has taken an independent position and was standing on the grounds of creation the new Ukrainian literature by quilified artists who put in front of them the demand of improvement and mastering the best achievements of western European culture. The virtual leader of the union was 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...
; the president were 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...
, later - Mykola Kulish
Mykola Kulish
Mykola Kulish was a Ukrainian prosaic, drama writer, pedagogue, veteran of the World War I, Red Army veteran.-Brief biography:Kulish was born in a village of...
; and the secretary was Arkadiy Liubchenko.
In the organization actively worked, the above mentioned, 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...
, 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...
, Oles Dosvitny, Mykola Kulish
Mykola Kulish
Mykola Kulish was a Ukrainian prosaic, drama writer, pedagogue, veteran of the World War I, Red Army veteran.-Brief biography:Kulish was born in a village of...
, Hryhorii Epik
Hryhorii Epik
Hryhorii Danylovych Epik was a Ukrainian writer and journalist. He supported the Soviet Ukrainization during the 1920s which probably led to his arrest and execution during the Great Purge in the 1930s.-Early life:...
, 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...
, Ivan Senchenko, Oleksa Slisarenko, Petro Panch, Mykola Bazhan
Mykola Bazhan
Mykola Platonovych Bazhan was a Soviet Ukrainian writer and poet. He was awarded the Stalin Prize ....
, Yuriy Yanovskyi, Yuriy Smolych, Ivan Dniprovsky, Oleksandr Kopylenko etc.
Prior to the organization of the association the major literary associations were the Union of Proletarian Writers Hart and the Union of Peasant Writers Pluh. Those organizations were mostly culturally enlightening which in actuality distracted them from their literary artistic goals.
In 1927 VAPLITE was issuing its magazine "VAPLITE".
The views of 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...
led to criticism from the Party and government personnel of the Ukrainian SSR
Ukrainian SSR
The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic or in short, the Ukrainian SSR was a sovereign Soviet Socialist state and one of the fifteen constituent republics of the Soviet Union lasting from its inception in 1922 to the breakup in 1991...
. Especially acute attacks suffered his work, "Waldshnepi". Due to constant persecutions VAPLITE was forced to self-dissolve in 1928. The members of VAPLITE continued their literary activity in the literary almanac
Almanac
An almanac is an annual publication that includes information such as weather forecasts, farmers' planting dates, and tide tables, containing tabular information in a particular field or fields often arranged according to the calendar etc...
"Literary Fair" (1928–29) and the organization "Politfront". The members of VAPLITE became one of the first victims of Stalin regime's repressions.