EASTERN EUROPEAN AGRARIANISM. UKRAINIAN INTELLECTUAL SPACE IN THE LATE 19TH AND EARLY 20TH CENTURIES

Abstract

Based on the analysis of a wide range of sources, the article focuses on the reasons for the emergence of Eastern European agrarianism, and understanding of the “Eastern European agrarianism”concept in a broad and narrow sense. Considering the spread area of Eastern European agrarianism on the basis of territorial character and peculiarities of socioeconomic and socio-political development of Eastern European countries, there are grounds to distinguish its variants: Polish, Bulgarian, Czechoslovakian, Romanian, Ukrainian, etc. Based on the analysis of the Ukrainian intellectual space in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, it is reasonable to assume that there were the ideas of Eastern European agrarianism presented by its Ukrainian variant in it. In particular, it affirmed a peasant-centric view of Ukrainianness, the peasant character of the Ukrainian nation, the separateness of city and countryside, urban and rural worldviews and ways of being. The identification of such concepts as “Ukrainian peasantry”, “Ukrainian nation”, and “Ukrainian people” was considered axiomatic in the views of the representatives of the Ukrainian intellectual space in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The political future of the Ukrainian statehood was closely linked to the peasantry