Stepan Iosifovich Tudor (real name Oleksyuk , Ukrainian: Tudor Stepan Yosipovich , born August 25, 1892 - died June 22, 1941 ) - Ukrainian writer, publicist and communist leader in Galicia, member of the Communist Party of Western Ukraine . Doctor of Philosophy (1932).
Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 Creativity
- 3 Attempts to destroy monuments
- 4 Artworks
- 5 notes
- 6 Sources
Biography
Born in the village of Ponikva in Lviv region. During the First World War he served in the Austrian army, in 1915 surrendered to Russian captivity and until 1923 lived in Soviet Ukraine. Member of the Civil War in Ukraine , was a fighter of the Korsun Revolutionary Brigade, then the organizer of cooperatives, an employee of the image. Returning to Galicia , he graduated from Lviv University ( 1926 ) and became an active worker in the communist movement. In 1927, one of the organizers of the group of Western Ukrainian proletarian writers "Gorno" and editor of the journal "Vіkna".
In 1931-1939 he lived in Zolochev . One of the organizers and participants of the Anti-Fascist Congress of Cultural Figures 1936 in Lviv. In September 1939 he headed the revolutionary committee, then the provisional administration of the city, was elected a member of the National Assembly of Western Ukraine , and welcomed the accession of Western Ukraine to the Ukrainian SSR . He became an assistant professor at the University of Lviv, a board member of the Lviv department of the Union of Writers of Ukraine, the head of the Lviv branch of the Institute of Literature of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, etc.
He died on June 22, 1941, together with Alexander Gavrilyuk during a raid by Nazi-German troops on Lviv .
He was buried at the Lychakiv cemetery in the same grave with Alexander Gavrilyuk.
Creativity
Stepan Tudor began to print in 1925 . Prose books were published: the collection “Birth” ( 1929 ), the novel “Milk Madness” ( 1930 ) and the satirical novel “Father Jay's Father's Day” (1932–1941), highly praised in Soviet literary criticism, directed against the Catholic clergy and the nationalist movement in Galicia . In addition, he was the author of poetry, literary-critical, philosophical and journalistic articles in the communist press.
Attempts to Destroy Monuments
In April 2014, after repeated acts of vandalism against the plaque of Tudor and Gavrilyuk on the street. Doroshenko in Lviv, it was arbitrarily closed with advertising [1] .
May 9, 2016 Ukrainian nationalists from the organizations Sokol, Karpatska Sich, Right Sector, White Croats and the OUN battalion in the amount of about forty people wanted to demolish the monument, but they were beaten [ style ] police and they fled. Criminal proceedings were opened on the grounds of a crime under Part 2 of Article 296 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine - group hooliganism. The monument to Stepan Tudor does not fall under the law on decommunization, and two of the activists were detained by the police [2] [3] [4] . The right-wing sector condemned the provocation and declared that their people were not involved in the incident [5] . September 7, 2016 the monument was dismantled by decision of the working group at the Lviv City Council [6]
Artwork
- Tudor S. Create in 2 vols. - Kiev: View of the Academy of Sciences of the Ural Soviet Socialist Republic, 1962. - Vol. 1, 468 p .; T. 2, 544 p.
Notes
- ↑ In Lviv, the store closed its memorial plaque with its advertising - Lviv News Feed
- ↑ In Lviv, people in balaclava wanted to demolish the monument to the writer
- ↑ Siyogodnі at the center of Lviv nevіdomі magnagalis to know the monument to Stepan Tudor
- ↑ a monument to the Soviet writer Stepan Tudor was tried in Lviv, there are victims (inaccessible link)
- ↑ The right sector stating about indecency to the incident with the monument to Tudor u Lviv
- ↑ A monument to Stepan Tudor Was dismantled in Lviv . Date of treatment September 7, 2016.
Sources
- Great Soviet Encyclopedia .
- Encyclopedia of Ukrainian Studies .