Accession - UAA-1993-067

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UAA-1993-067

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  • 1923 - 1988 (Creation)
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    Kostiuk, Hryhory

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3.60 m of textual records

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(1902-2002)

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Hryhory Kostiuk was born on October 25, 1902 in Boryshkivtsi, Podilia gubernia (today a part of Ukraine). He studied at the Kyiv Institute of People's Education (1925–1929) and was a graduate student at the Shevchenko Institute of Literature in Kharkiv in the early 1930s. From 1927 to 1931 his literary reviews and essays appeared in Zhyttia i revoliutsiia, Molodniak, Chervonyi shliakh, Krytyka, Prolitfront, and other journals. He taught Ukrainian literary history at Kharkiv University (1932–3) and the Luhansk Pedagogical Institute (1933–4). Arrested in Kyiv during the Stalinist terror and accused of ‘nationalism’ and ‘Khvylovyism,’ he spent the years 1935–1940 in a Soviet prison and concentration camps, mostly at Vorkuta. A postwar refugee in West Germany from 1944, he helped found the MUR literary organization and was one of the founding members of the Ukrainian Revolutionary Democratic party and its secretary in 1948. As a member of its left-wing faction, he co-founded the monthly Vpered in 1949.
In 1952, he moved to the United States where he was a full member of the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences. There he headed the Slovo Association of Ukrainian Writers in Exile (1955 - 1975). In the late 1950s, he brought the archives of Volodymyr Vynnychenko from France and became their curator at Columbia University. He has edited several volumes of Vynnychenko's previously unpublished literary works and diaries.
Kostiuk was a prominent émigré literary scholar and editor, who wrote extensively on Ukrainian literature and politics in interwar Soviet Ukraine. Many of his essays, which appeared in several émigré periodicals, were republished in his collections Volodymyr Vynnychenko ta ioho doba (Volodymyr Vynnychenko and His Age, 1980), Na magistraliakh doby (On the Thoroughfares of an Age, 1983), and U sviti idei i obraziv (In the World of Ideas and Images, 1983).
He was instrumental in keeping alive the memory of Ukrainian writers who were victims of the Stalinist terror. He collected and was the editor in chief of the complete edition of Mykola Khvylovy's works (5 vols, 1978–86), which had been banned in Soviet Ukraine since the early 1930s. He also edited new editions of Valeriian Pidmohylny's Misto (The City, 1954) and the works of Mykola Kulish (1955), Mykola Plevako (1961), Pavlo Fylypovych (1971), and Mykhailo Drai-Khmara (1979). He is the author of the seminal Stalinist Rule in the Ukraine: A Study of the Decade of Mass Terror, 1929–39 (1960) and of Teoriia i diisnist’: Do problemy vyvchennia teoriï, praktyky i stratehiï bil’shovyzmu v natsional’nomu pytanni (Theory and Reality: On the Problem of Studying the Theory, Practice, and Strategy of Bolshevism vis-á-vis the National Question, 1971).
Memoirs of his imprisonment, Okaianni roky (The Accursed Years), appeared in 1978. His other memoirs appeared in two volumes as Zustrichi i proshchannia (Meetings and Farewells, 1987 and 1998). Hryhory Kostiuk passed away on October 3, 2002 in Silver Springs, Maryland, USA.

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This accession consists of Hryhory Kostiuk’s personal papers, notes, paper ephemera, and a rich correspondence with a multitude of friends, family and professional contacts.

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      donor list; accession register; index; case file

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      7.2.1993

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      File list in case file. Contains list of names noted in the correspondence.

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      DBRACEWELL 6.3.2009; OKOMARNYTSKA 6.21.2023

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