“New Generation” or “New Generation” ( Ukrainian: Nova Generation ) is a literary organization, the third modification of the Ukrainian “left front” art associations (Ukr LEF ).
The first was the Association of Pan Futurists ( Aspanfoot ), which has been operating since 1922 in Kharkov and Kiev , headed by a permanent leader and theoretician M. Semenko . In her declarations, manifestos, platforms, printed in the collections of “Semaphore to the Future”, “Hearse of Art” (1922), proclaimed the end of “bourgeois art” , destruction as “ art of the transition period ”, after which the time will come for synthesis , to create another art that will combine skill, craftsmanship and mega-art . After some time, Aspanfoot was renamed ASKK, there is the Association of Communist Culture, which operated in 1924-1925 (collection “Gong Kommunkult”, “Golfiptrom” - 1925), but, “having encountered the lack of qualified personnel” , already in the same 1925 went to association with the liturgical organization Gart , which itself, under the influence of literary discussion, began to collapse. At this time, the ASCC, instead of calls for destruction, put forward the slogan of the need for the construction-formation of "left prose" , inviting poetry, film genres.
"New Generation" was formed in 1927 in Kharkov , Kiev and Odessa around the magazine of the same name. In addition to the former adherents of futurism - Geo Skurupiya , Geo Kolyada , L. Nedoli, the organization included young poets ( N. Bulatovich ), fiction writers, critics - O. Vlyzko , V. Ver, I. Malovichko , D. Buzko , L. Zimny, L. Chernov , Edward Stryha , A. Maryamov, A. Poltoratsky ; artists V. Meller , Dan Sotnik, K. Malevich, filmmakers - G. Tasin , A. Pereguda and others.
In the new declaration, “The Platform and the Environment of the Left,” the “New Generation” indicated its hereditary relationship with previous litas. by unions, somewhat modernized its program, propagating the theory and practice of avant-garde movements in art, fighting against “ national narrow-mindedness” , “backwardness” , speaking under the banner of internationalism , seeing its allies in VUSPP , Molodnyak , Berezil , and opponents in WAPLITE and Neoclassical .
The “New Generation" continued to oppose the classical heritage and national traditions. The artistic practice of its representatives was concentrated around propaganda genres that served the needs of official ideology. Over the next three years (1927-1930), the organization changed its name twice more: the All-Ukrainian Union of Communist Culture (VUSKK, 1929) and the Association of Proletarian Writers of Ukraine (OPPU, 1930).
In January 1931, under the pressure of "consolidation measures" from the CPSU (B.), The organization was forced to self-destruct .