DZIUBA-POHREBNIAK OLENA 2025 №6

DZIUBA-POHREBNIAK OLENA

a Ph. D. in Philology, an associate professor, a head of the Department of Slavic Philology of the Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology of Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University (Kyiv, Ukraine).

https://orcid.org/0009-0002-7350-2119

The materials about Ukraine published in the “New Europe” journal in the 1920s and 1930s, as well as a separate “Ukrainian” issue of the edition in 1939, are analyzed in the article. “New Europe” is an independent “magazine focused on cultural, political and social issues” published in the capital of Croatia (then it was a part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, and from 1929 – the Kingdom of Yugoslavia) from 1920 to 1941. It has been published by Milan Čurčin (1880–1960), a famous Serbian modernist poet, journalist, critic and translator, who lived most of his professional life in Zagreb. He is one of the few who have published (as the editor of the journal) materials about Stalin’s purges and repressions. That’s why he has problems with Yugoslav communists. «New Europe” is also one of the few magazines of the southern Slavs that also informed its readers about the situation in Ukraine. The thematic issue of “New Erope” on Ukraine (1939) is a unique one in this regard. A wide range of opinions amongst a diverse group of authors is reflected in it. The aim and objective of the article is to describe and analyse the materials focused on Ukrainian topics of this Croatian magazine. The editorial staff of the journal has given the floor to the authors with radically opposing political views, as well as diverse attitudes to Ukrainian culture as a phenomenon distinctive and different from Russian, trying to adhere to the principle of objectivity and impartiality. The relevance of the submitted work is caused by the fact that the articles of this Croatian journal in Ukrainian Studies are of a great interest for readers in the history of Ukrainian-Croatian cultural relations, especially since these materials have not previously been analysed within the academic community of Ukrainian-Slavic studies. The published works of “New Europe” remain relevant today, allowing us to see how important the mutual acquaintance of different Slav communities was and how difficult it was to achieve it.

Keywords: “New Europe”, Croatia, Ukraine, Ukrainian issue, Ukrainian literature.

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