| Abstrakt: |
The article systematizes the information published in the Ukrainian-language daily newspaper ‘Rada’, which was issued in Kyiv from 1906 to 1919, about the cultural and community activity of the population of the county center – the town of Uman. With the growing interest of researchers in urban studies, little-studied aspects of urban life and controversial evaluative judgments are revealed, which can help clarify materials from the periodical press. The newspaper ‘Rada’ contained about sixty publications about the strengthening of Ukrainian accents in the lives of townspeople. In particular, the newspaper reported on the support of Ukrainian gymnasium students for the movement for the Ukrainian language, about the Ukrainian repertoire of the Okhmativ folk choir, about the initiatives of Umans to honor the memory of Taras Shevchenko, about the emergence of new cultural and educational centers, about the appearance of new newspapers, about public libraries, the creation of cultural and community organizations – ‘Prosvitas’ about the processes of Ukrainization in the army and education. All this testified to the affirmation of Ukrainian identity and the increase in the national consciousness of Ukrainians. The information published in the daily Ukrainian-language newspaper ‘Rada’ about the cultural and community activity of the residents in Uman provides an opportunity to expand knowledge about the impact of the first Russian revolution on the life of the county town. Since the revolution had a broadly democratic character, it contributed to the development of the national liberation movement and the upliftment of Ukrainian national-cultural life. The materials systematized in the article, supplemented by similar information about urban life during the specified chronological period in other county centers of the Kyiv Governorate, may possibly refute assertions that efforts to participate in the imagined competition for the identity of the urban Ukrainian community were ‘minimal’. Therefore, the continuation of this article should be a comprehensive study of publications in the newspaper ‘Rada’ about the cultural and community life of residents in other county centers of the Kyiv Governorate in the first decades of the 20th century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
