THE HISTORY OF UKRAINIAN CULTURE



THE HISTORY OF UKRAINIAN CULTURE

Examination questions

1. The essence of the concept of "culture", the basic conceptions of cultural development of mankind.

2. Geographical factors in the formation of Ukrainian culture.

4. Periods of Ukrainian culture.

5. Primitive forms of Paleolithic and Neolithic culture. Trypilian culture.

6. Effect of Scythian-Sarmatian and ancient cultures on the culture of the indigenous population of Ukraine.

7. Pagan culture of ancient Slavs. Slavic mythology.

8. Influence of the Byzantine Empire and the European Middle Ages on the formation of culture Kyivan Rus' and Galicia-Volhynia.

9. The adoption of Christianity and its influence on the development of culture.(The emergence of writing. Translated and original literature.Architecture of Kyivan Rus' and Galicia-Volhynia. Fine arts: icons, frescoes, mosaics, portrait miniatures.)

10. Prerequisites of Ukrainian cultural revival of the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries on the base of European cultural process. The beginning of publishing in Ukraine.

11. Ukrainian Cossacks as a phenomenon of history and culture.

12. Architecture and art of XIV – the first half XVII cc.

13. Cultural and religious processes of late XVI – the first third of XVII centuries: Union of Brest in 1596, the Orthodox Brotherhoods, polemical literature, Ostrog cultural educational center.

14. Cultural educational activity of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.

15. Features of Ukrainian Enlightenment. Hryhorii Skovoroda.

16. Ideological and artistic aesthetic principles of Ukrainian Baroque.

17. Features of the dynamics of culture XIX–XX centuries: European and National context.

18. National cultural process in Western Ukraine. "Ruthenian trinity".

19. The formation of cultural identity and national consciousness of Ukrainians (XIX с.)

20. Shevchenko’s role in the development of Ukrainian culture and spirituality.

21. Architectural styles of Ukraine in XIX century. Famous monuments.

22. The main artistic aesthetic currents of the nineteenth century. Ideological and artistic aesthetic principles of Ukrainian romanticism.

23. Revival of Ukrainian culture in the period of the National Democratic Revolution (1917–1920).

24. Ukrainian cultural renaissance of the 20's: Ukrainization, literary trends and groups, development of education and science, literacy, mass media.

25. The development of art in the 1920's: avant-garde, kubo-futurism, M. Boychuk’s school, Kurbas’ theater, Dovzhenko in the context of Ukrainian cinema development.

26. Representatives of "Executed Renaissance" and their role in shaping Ukrainian national consciousness.

27. Ukrainian culture during the Second World War.

28. Ukrainian culture in the Soviet totalitarian "socialist realism".

29. Khrushchev "thaw" and the awakening of national and spiritual life in Ukraine. "Sixties" in literature and art.

30. Ukrainian culture in time of new Russification (1970s–1980s).

31. The growth of national cultural identity. Major trends and perspectives of contemporary Ukrainian culture.

32. Education and science in the context of building an independent state.

33. National symbols.

34. Architecture of present-day Ukraine.

35. Beliefs, customs and rituals of the Ukrainian people. Ukrainian folk calendar.

36. Arts and crafts (embroidery, egg painting, pottery).

37. Food and culture of eating of Ukrainians.

38. Folklore. Ukrainian folk song.

39. Settlement and habitation. Folk architecture.

40. Causes, stages and directions of emigration. Culture of emigration.

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