ON PERIODICAL PUBLICATIONS OF THE CONFEDERATION OF ANARCHIST ORGANIZATIONS “NABAT” IN THE YELYSAVETRAD DISTRICT DURING THE UKRAINIAN REVOLUTION OF 1917–1921

Abstract

The activities of the Confederation of Anarchist Organizations of Ukraine “Nabat” are of considerable interest to researchers of the socio-political movement, in particular, anarchism at the beginning of the 20th century. The purpose of the work is to study the periodicals that were published by the Confederation of Anarchist Organizations of Ukraine “Nabat” in the territory of the Yelysavetgrad district during the Ukrainian Revolution of 1917–1921. The research methodology is based on the principles of historicism, systematics, and the historical-comparative method. The scientific novelty is due to the need to study periodicals of anarchist orientation, which were published in the Yelysavetgrad region, with the subsequent highlighting of the features of rhetoric, the arrangement of the main accents in agitation and propaganda. The problems of following the key theses already developed by the theorists of anarchism for popularizing ideas among the population, covering political events and providing assessments of competing political forces are considered. It is noted that political parties of the early twentieth century actively used periodicals in their agitation and propaganda. Anarchists, despite their weak self-discipline, also drew attention to the prospects of periodicals as a platform for disseminating ideas and a certain dialogue with like-minded people in other organizations. Periodicals of the anarchist movement remain little studied and promising within the framework of the all-Ukrainian and regional dimensions of scientific research. The problem of reconstructing the history of anarchist groups and organizations is important not only in understanding Ukrainian society at the beginning of the 20th century (since they occupied their niche in the socio-political movement of that time, bringing their own special accents), but also in world history, as one of the few examples of practical experience of attempts to implement libertarian left-wing political projects. Only their successors during the Spanish Civil War can be comparable in scope, where some of the participants used the experience of anarchism during the Ukrainian Revolution of 1917–1921.