The Participation of Ukrainian Youth Societies in the Cultural, Educational, and Public-Political Life of Bukovyna During the Second Half of the 19th – the Beginning of the 20th Century
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https://doi.org/10.31861/hj2025.61.34-41Keywords:
youth associations, cultural and educational activities, social and political life, BukovynaAbstract
Most Ukrainian youth associations in Bukovyna in the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries operated as cultural and educational organizations, so this area of their work, which involved the study and dissemination of the Ukrainian language, literature, history, and culture, was dominant. This was carried out in the following forms: organizing and holding musical and recitation evenings, amateur theater performances, «folk concerts», choral performances, trips to Bukovyna, the work of libraries of youth societies, and publishing activities. The improvement of the educational level of the youth itself, as well as of the peasants and townspeople, was facilitated by courses organized by the youth to eliminate illiteracy and preparatory courses for secondary and higher education institutions, as well as popular science lectures.
The growth of students’ national consciousness aroused in them a desire to deepen their study of the past of their own people. They saw one way to satisfy this in creating a Department of Ukrainian History at Chernivtsi University with Ukrainian as the language of instruction. The youth also sought to expand the rights of the Ukrainian language in secondary schools and advocated for the Ukrainization of administrative and judicial bodies in Bukovyna.
Ukrainian organized youth of Bukovyna in the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries took an active part in the public life of the region, cooperating with other Ukrainian institutions of the region: «Ruska Besida», «Zhinocha Hromada», «Bukovynskyi Boian», «Ukrainian Bourgeois Club». Youth representatives were always present at the founding of Ukrainian people’s homes, the opening of loan offices, community stores, cooperatives, and other economic associations, and at numerous people’s assemblies, during which topical problems of the time were discussed. Young people also became involved in political activity, primarily in response to the violation of constitutional rights in Austria-Hungary, the inappropriateness of national life, and the persecution of Ukrainians in Russia.
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