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DOI https://doi.org/10.15407/

THE PATH TO UKRAINIANISM. TO THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH OF AFANAS ZALIVAKHA

SAPELYAK Oksana

  • ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8111-65
  • Candidate of Historical Scientes, Senior Research Associate,
  • Institute of Ethnology of the National Academy
  • of Sciences of Ukraine, Department of Modern Ethnology, 
  • Active Member of the Shevcheko Scientific Society,
  • 15, Svobody Avenue, 79000, Lviv, Ukraine,
  • Contacts: e-mail: oksana.sapelyak@gmail.com

Abstract. The study of the traditional culture of Ukrainians is focused mainly on issues of material culture. Considerable attention is paid in modern science to the study of the spiritual and religious life of the people, folk knowledge, and rituals.

The purpose and objectives of the article are to examine the Ukrainian Resistance movement of the mid-20th century, that is, the Sixties as a national spiritual tradition of the struggle for national freedom, an independent state in conditions of enslavement for centuries.

Under the conditions of a totalitarian regime, when the very concept of national identity was being liquidated, when slavish disenfranchisement became the norm of existence, the tradition of the struggle for freedom, law and justice, and national culture manifested itself in the activities of the Sixties. 

The object of this study is the Sixties Resistance movement, the subject is the life path of the artist Afanas Zalivakha.

Keywords: Resistance movement, sixties, Afanas Zalivakha, political prisoners, self-awareness, samizdat, Ukrainianism.

Received 22.09.2025

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